• Individual behavioral health providers (unlimited visits)
  • Psychiatrist: A medical doctor who specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating mental illness. Psychiatrists can prescribe psychiatric medications.
  • Counselor: A licensed, mental health professional, such as a social worker, mental health counselor, or marriage and family therapist, who evaluates and treats common life stressors, and mild to moderate mood disorders. Counselors do not prescribe medications.
  • Psychologist: A licensed, mental health professional trained to work with mild or severe psychological issues. Psychologists do not prescribe medications.
• Intensive outpatient programs*
  • Typically, these programs are three days per week, three to four hours per day, for a period of four to six weeks. Most are structured so people can continue their normal daily routines.
  • Combination of individual and group therapy (family therapy if appropriate); may include psychiatrist evaluation and medication management
  • Recommended for people who are experiencing emotional and behavioral problems, and would benefit from learning how to manage their symptoms and issues in a structured environment, as well as people with similar issues.
• Partial day hospitalization programs*
  • Typically, five days a week, five hours a day
  • Combination of individual and group therapy (family therapy if appropriate); often includes psychiatrist evaluation
  • Recommended for people that require more intensive treatment than traditional outpatient care, are experiencing serious emotional and behavioral problems, are at risk for hospitalization, or as treatment following inpatient hospitalization

• Inpatient acute hospital care*
  • Round-the-clock care in a hospital setting; typically lasts a couple of days
  • Daily visits by a team of professionals, including a psychiatrist and group therapy (if appropriate)
  • Recommended to stabilize a crisis and/or severe symptoms
• Inpatient residential care*
  • Typically, a short-term placement in a residential setting close to a person’s home until they stabilize and can return to the community
  • Combination of group, individual, and family therapy

*Some mental health and substance abuse services require prior authorization.