Standing Strong

The short picture on Standing Strong (Baltimore, MD): The facility offers specific levels of care: Inpatient, Dual Dx. The longer picture — clinical framework, payer mix, outcomes — takes a few specific questions to surface.

Care levels at Standing Strong

The facility's documented care levels are The facility offers specific levels of care: Inpatient, Dual Dx. — each of which is appropriate for specific clinical presentations. Matching the level to the specific clinical need is the pre-admission work. The level-of-care question is where a lot of misaligned placements happen — a patient who needs residential ends up in IOP, or vice versa. The protection is a clinical assessment outside the facility's admissions team.

Insurance and payment

Standing Strong accepts Medicaid — which is consequential because facilities that accept Medicaid tend to have the broadest patient populations and the most developed public-sector relationships, though reimbursement structures mean program intensity sometimes differs from commercial-focused centers. The uncomfortable truth about insurance at most treatment centers is that admissions staff and the utilization-review team sometimes have different understandings of what was promised. Written VOB forces those understandings into alignment.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Adult men, Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. A facility's specialty designation is a starting filter, not an endorsement. The operational questions (who leads it, how many hours per week, what credentials) are where the actual answer lives.

Before you call

Three questions for Standing Strong 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 Standing Strong 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.