Benefits for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment
About 30% of all addicts have no health coverage and are very unlikely able to afford necessary and expensive private drug or alcohol treatment.
Ensuring that your insurance coverage includes benefits for needed mental health and substance abuse treatment costs will make your policy payments more expensive, but can make the difference between getting the quality care you need and deserve, and fighting for a public treatment space.
Because the costs of private drug treatment can be very high, make certain that the treatment facility accepts insurance payments, and if at all possible have the facility arrange for payment from the insurance provider.
It's unfortunate that financial issues need intrude on an already difficult family health problem, but the expensive reality of drug treatment requires insurance coverage to defray the costs, and to allow for the best of care when we need it.
page last update Aug 05, 2010
