Living Trees Center

Living Trees Center sits in Chicago, IL, one of the many SAMHSA-registered addiction-treatment facilities across IL. The facility's programming is outpatient (IOP), not residential. The interesting questions about any specific program are rarely the ones its website answers.

Care levels at Living Trees Center

What Living Trees Center offers: Living Trees Center is an outpatient-focused program (IOP) — patients live at home or in sober living and attend treatment sessions. This level of care is clinically appropriate for mild-to-moderate substance use disorder, or for patients stepping down from residential. What matters is whether that matches the specific clinical picture, which only a proper assessment can tell. Most mismatches happen when the assessment is skipped or done inside the facility with a commercial interest in admission.

Insurance and payment

Payment and insurance specifics for Living Trees Center are not fully documented in the SAMHSA registry — a direct admissions conversation is the reliable way to confirm what forms of payment are accepted and at what network-contract level. Most post-treatment billing disputes trace back to a specific moment when an admissions counselor said one thing and the benefits department later documented something else. Avoid the moment by getting the written VOB before admission, not after.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Young adults, Adult women, Adult men. The gap between specialty-branding and specialty-programming is where a lot of families end up disappointed. Specific questions — who, how many hours, what credentials — close the gap before admission.

Before you call

Three questions for Living Trees Center before you sign anything: what ASAM level you are being admitted at; what the written VOB says for your plan; how the program handles MAT. If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether Living Trees Center offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care. These three together tell you most of what a facility's about.