Rehab centers in Minnesota

Rehab in Minnesota has no one cost, and the biggest lever is whether you sleep there. A residential stay is paid as two separate daily rates, one for the treatment and one for room and board, so a figure you are quoted may cover the program and not the bed. Outpatient has no bed to pay for and runs at a fraction of it. Ask which of those two rates any number includes, and who is expected to pay each.

Not always. Minnesota runs a public fund that pays for rehab outright, the Behavioral Health Fund, for people with no insurance or whose insurance will not cover the whole cost. There is an income limit by household size, $21,227 a year for one person, and it is not for people already on Medical Assistance, who are covered there. You apply to the state now, not to a county, though a county, Tribal Nation or provider can help. Approval gives you 60 consecutive days to start, and the fund pays the program directly.

Detox in Minnesota is paid for by whatever covers treatment: Medical Assistance, MinnesotaCare, private insurance, or the Behavioral Health Fund if you have none. Ask for it by the name the coverage uses, withdrawal management. The fund settles financial eligibility after the admission rather than before it, so money does not hold up a bed. Only 43 centers here offer it, across 22 Minnesota cities. Coming off alcohol or benzodiazepines is the dangerous case, so call the number at the top of this page first.

Yes, usually. Minnesota law also sets the terms: insurance that covers treatment for drug or alcohol use cannot charge you more for it, or cap it harder, than it does an equivalent medical stay. If you have no plan, the state runs two. Medical Assistance covers income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, and MinnesotaCare picks up from there to 200 percent for a monthly premium on a sliding scale. Both pay for alcohol and drug treatment.

In Minnesota a comprehensive assessment qualifies you for inpatient rehab, and you can get one straight from a licensed treatment program rather than through a county first. The program has to offer it within five days or point you somewhere you can get it sooner. Whatever level it recommends then travels with you: you can take it to any enrolled provider licensed for that level, including the one that assessed you. Of the Minnesota centers listed, 96 offer a residential stay and 317 treat people at home.

Thirty days is what most Minnesota residential rehab programs quote, with two and three month versions above it, and a detox stay is shorter again, counted in days. What sets the length is the assessment, reviewed as the stay goes on. Minnesota also pays for residential care by how much treatment the week holds: one of its funded levels is defined as 15 hours of skilled treatment services a week. Ask how many hours a week a program runs, not only how many nights.

Free therapy in Minnesota usually means therapy that a payer is covering rather than therapy with no money behind it. The help that is free outright is the peer side: A.A. and N.A. meetings cost nothing, ask for no insurance and need no referral, and this page links them for Minnesota by city and town. Nobody there will assess you and it is not therapy, but a meeting is on this week, which a treatment place may not be.