Bishop Health

They provide outpatient and telemedicine. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and Portland is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

They do not detox. Withdrawal from alcohol or benzodiazepines in particular is a medical event, and the closest place set up for it is in South Portland, 3.4 miles away.

Outpatient only, and nothing within 14 miles of South Portland has beds either, so a residential stay would mean traveling further than that.

South Portland has 3 AA groups, which is a different thing from treatment and a useful one next to it.

No medication assisted treatment here. Some programs are abstinence based by design, which is a real difference rather than an oversight, and South Portland has 8 other centers to compare.

Treatment is priced by program rather than by night, and the programs differ a great deal. Every state operates a publicly funded system with its own intake line, separate from anything a private center offers. Ask for the figure per week as well as per program, because extensions are billed by the week.

In network and out of network are the two phrases that decide most of this. An out of network center can still be partly covered, and the difference lands on you. Ask what the rate becomes if the plan stops approving days before the program ends.

A program treats the fact that you are there as confidential by default, including from whoever is paying. An authorization carries an end date and stops when that date passes, rather than running on indefinitely. Ask how long the record is kept and what would have to happen for anyone to see it later.