Hi everyone,
This is a question for anyone who's gone to residential treatment and has medicaid. I live in IL. I was looking into a program specifically for self-injury. It was a very good program from the sounds of it! It is at a hospital that's specifically for behavioral health. They accept only children's medicaid up to age 21 and65 and older. When I asked about this I was given information about a NAMI rule from the 1960s. Saying that free standing psych hospitals are not allowed to bill to adult medicaid. This from what I understand was inacted at a time where many people were left long term in probably very poor psych hospitals. It was designed to help people get out of that situation and into the community. Unfortunately things have changed soo much since then. These places that are psychiatric free standing hospitals are providing what seems like wonderful partial hospital programs that are very supportive. And residential programs that are thirty to ninety days that are designed for in depth but short term treatment. Obveously this has changed from the 60s. It's just so unfair that people in most need of services (those on medicaid) are denied residential treatment almost across the board. If you have experiences of being on medicaid and going to residential I'd like to hear about them!