Table 4.18a Facility payment options, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 30, 2007 Number
Facility operation and primary focus	Total	Number of facilities¹
		Type of payment accepted									Sliding fee scale	Treatment at no charge for clients who cannot pay
		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	Sliding fee scale	Treatment at no charge for clients who cannot pay
Total	13,648	8,136	7,069	7,354	6,375	5,536	4,380	391	1,345	361	8,440	7,163
Facility operation
Private non-profit	7,907	4,877	4,167	4,273	4,213	3,623	2,624	286	927	238	5,421	4,922
Private for-profit	3,906	2,304	1,896	2,079	1,170	1,062	984	7	307	88	1,874	946
Local, county, or community govt.	887	529	498	555	563	491	378	26	43	17	729	596
State government	431	258	236	276	264	221	175	14	38	9	317	325
Federal government	328	99	195	90	71	58	160	28	9	3	40	221
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	183	71	147	75	50	37	96	5	2	3	34	152
Dept. of Defense	94	9	35	4	5	4	54	14	- -	- -	- -	29
Indian Health Service	42	13	11	10	14	16	10	7	6	- -	4	33
Other	9	6	2	1	2	1	- -	2	1	- -	2	7
Tribal government	189	69	77	81	94	81	59	30	21	6	59	153
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	8,360	4,934	3,568	3,804	3,128	2,786	1,872	290	892	218	5,001	4,416
Mental health services	949	595	713	732	688	552	535	5	58	10	590	456
Mix of mental health and substance abuse treatment services	3,957	2,383	2,584	2,636	2,388	2,083	1,846	70	366	117	2,683	2,057
General health care	189	101	142	125	113	74	92	7	16	4	75	115
Other/unknown	193	123	62	57	58	41	35	19	13	12	91	119
¹ Number of facilities sums to more than the Total column 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 6.20a for number 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), 2007.}