Residential Eating Disorder Facilities Costly for Insurance Companies
Now that insurance companies cannot discriminate against individuals with mental illnesses for treatment options, they are looking for ways to cut some costs and residential treatment facilities offer a lucrative choice. In the residential setting, you can control almost every aspect of your patient's treatment and with the average length of stay being 83 days that's almost three months of round-the-clock, full time care.
There is a question about whether insurance companies can handle these costs. There is data supporting the effectiveness of residential eating disorder treatment but insurance companies assert that the costs will impact other insureds.
