| Table 4.12b Facility payment options, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2006 Percent distribution |
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| Facility operation and primary focus | No. of facilities |
Percent1 | ||||||||||
| Type of payment accepted | Sliding fee scale |
Treatment at no charge for clients who cannot pay |
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| Cash
or self- payment |
Private health insurance |
Medicare | Medicaid | State- financed health insurance |
Federal military insurance |
No payment accepted |
Access to Recovery (ATR) vouchers2 |
Other | ||||
| Total | 13,771 | 90.2 | 64.1 | 33.3 | 52.3 | 32.0 | 31.8 | 4.1 | 10.2 | 2.1 | 63.2 | 53.5 |
| Facility operation | ||||||||||||
| Private non-profit | 8,111 | 89.8 | 63.4 | 35.4 | 59.4 | 34.7 | 30.7 | 5.0 | 12.2 | 2.2 | 70.0 | 63.1 |
| Private for-profit | 3,807 | 98.1 | 65.4 | 24.1 | 33.0 | 23.7 | 27.1 | 0.4 | 7.9 | 1.9 | 48.6 | 24.4 |
| Local, county, or community govt. | 896 | 90.4 | 66.6 | 46.5 | 72.0 | 45.5 | 41.0 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 82.3 | 68.9 |
| State government | 441 | 85.9 | 68.3 | 52.8 | 69.4 | 42.9 | 45.8 | 5.7 | 8.4 | 2.0 | 73.2 | 73.9 |
| Federal government | 331 | 42.9 | 61.3 | 25.7 | 22.4 | 12.1 | 74.3 | 10.3 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 17.2 | 67.7 |
| Dept. of Veterans Affairs | 186 | 66.7 | 83.3 | 33.3 | 24.2 | 11.8 | 80.6 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 23.7 | 81.2 |
| Dept. of Defense | 101 | 3.0 | 26.7 | 6.9 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 83.2 | 11.9 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 34.7 |
| Indian Health Service | 42 | 33.3 | 47.6 | 35.7 | 54.8 | 35.7 | 28.6 | 33.3 | 11.9 | 4.8 | 23.8 | 85.7 |
| Other | 2 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | - - | - - | 50.0 | - - | - - | 50.0 | 100.0 |
| Tribal government | 185 | 40.5 | 49.2 | 36.2 | 53.0 | 30.8 | 20.0 | 26.5 | 12.4 | 3.8 | 29.2 | 81.1 |
| Primary focus of facility | ||||||||||||
| Substance abuse treatment services | 8,577 | 89.6 | 56.2 | 20.4 | 44.4 | 25.7 | 21.1 | 5.0 | 11.0 | 2.2 | 61.8 | 54.0 |
| Mental health services | 1,050 | 92.7 | 83.0 | 70.1 | 73.8 | 48.3 | 56.0 | 1.0 | 6.2 | 1.1 | 63.9 | 48.8 |
| Mix
of mental health and substance abuse treatment services |
3,715 | 92.3 | 77.5 | 51.9 | 65.2 | 43.5 | 48.5 | 2.3 | 9.8 | 2.3 | 68.2 | 52.2 |
| General health care | 223 | 80.7 | 82.5 | 65.9 | 60.5 | 25.6 | 64.1 | 2.7 | 5.8 | 1.3 | 40.4 | 67.7 |
| Other/unknown | 206 | 76.7 | 35.9 | 15.0 | 31.1 | 14.1 | 14.1 | 13.1 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 52.9 | 63.6 |
| 1 Percents sum to more than 100 percent because a facility could accept more than one payment option. | ||||||||||||
| 2 Available only in CA, CT, FL, ID, IL, LA, MO, NJ, NM, TN, TX, WA, WI, and WY. See table 6.14 for percent of facilities accepting ATRs by State. | ||||||||||||
| - - Quantity is zero. | ||||||||||||
| SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006. | ||||||||||||
