I didn't have insurance that covered the inpatient treatment either....& medicare didn't cover it either.....many times the treatment centers won't accept the insurance that is there either....so it can go either way.

My pdoc at the time had an in with the Radar Institute in California when it was at Washington Memorial hospital (no longer there)..but they had funds that covered people who desperately needed hospitalization & treatment.....it covered the hospitalization & the treatment but it didn't cover the pdoc, the psychologist, or any of the medical tests they forced you to have.......so I ended up with a huge bill anyway that ended up going to collection......oh well...nothing I could do about it.....we were having a hard enough time just surviving after I no longer had my engineering career.

You can look for treatment centers that have funds that provide for the treatment. Unfortunately from my experience, I hated the treatment center & in some ways it made me worse not better & I still have issues with things like sustacal, the nutritional supplements they forced us to drink if we didn't finish ALL the meal they made us eat.

Also, my anorexia issues even though they dropped me to a very LOW weight which was very unhealthy & kept landing me in the medical hospital after I got out of the treatment was initiated by prozac which caused excessive weight loss for me along with the Wellbutrin.....but I was also suicidal & so when the weight loss started, I just grabbed onto it in hopes that I would not live......which also created a strange situation in the ED treatment center having to be 1 on 1 for over quite awhile.

Stress & trauma are also huge triggers for excessive weight loss for me & there are many treatment centers that don't treat anorexia that isn't based completely on body image issues.......so it was basically a useless experience for me as they did nothing to help me deal with where I was psychologically at the time & tried to shove me into their defined box.