CHOICE Program

They offer inpatient hospital, outpatient, detox and telemedicine. Which one fits is usually decided by how much structure the first few weeks need, and Indianapolis has 8 other centers within 14 miles.

They detox from opioids, so the first stage and the treatment after it can happen in one place rather than across two trips to Indianapolis.

One of their programs is built for veterans, which usually means a separate group rather than the same room with a different label, and it is one of the 13 named here.

They work in 1 language beyond English: Sign language. Ask whether the group sessions in Indianapolis are in it too, or only the one to one ones.

They treat both. Confirm it for the specific diagnosis rather than in general, because mental health treatment and recovery support services covers a lot of ground and Indianapolis may have a narrower service than a bigger city would.

Nearly every plan includes something for this, and the detail is in which level of care it will approve. A plan tends to approve a level of care in blocks of days, then review whether to carry on. Ask which level of care the plan has already approved, and for how many days.

Nothing goes out without an authorization you sign, and that authorization can be narrow. The protection reaches further than general medical privacy does, which is why a center will not take a message for you either. Ask who the center is allowed to speak to, and make sure the answer matches what you want.

It depends on the level of care and on the week, which is why only a phone call can answer it. The longest lists tend to sit at the programs that cost the least, which is the genuinely hard part of this. Ask what the wait is at every level of care, not only the one you called about.