Rehabs That Take Florida Medicaid: Our Campuses
These campuses hold contracts with the Florida Medicaid plans listed. Several cover only certain levels of care, such as detox, so admissions checks your plan and the level of care you need on one call.
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- Orlando Recovery Center
Orlando, Florida · Detox, inpatient, inpatient mental health, PHP, aftercare
Plans: Optum Medicaid (substance use IOP and outpatient only) - Orlando Outpatient Center
Maitland, Florida · Outpatient, IOP, telehealth
Plans: Optum Medicaid (substance use IOP and outpatient only)
Checked against our contract list on September 25, 2026. Plans change; admissions confirms coverage before you travel.
Behavioral health is part of Florida Medicaid, and substance use treatment sits inside it. The harder question is who to ask, and Florida has a clear answer to that one.
The Agency for Health Care Administration is responsible for Medicaid in Florida [1]. It completed the rollout of Statewide Medicaid Managed Care in 2014, and under that program most Medicaid recipients are enrolled in a health plan [1]. So for most people the organization that authorizes a rehab admission is their own plan, not the state directly.
This page covers who holds the benefit, what it reaches, how to identify your own plan, which levels of care get funded in practice, why a bed is the hardest thing to arrange, which Florida campuses we run, and the alternatives if Medicaid is not the route. Our guide to Does Insurance Cover Rehab? covers the wider picture, our Florida treatment page lists what runs in the state, and you can verify your insurance with our admissions team at any point.
Florida Medicaid: Who Holds Your Benefit
Start with the plan card rather than the program name.
Under Statewide Medicaid Managed Care, most recipients are enrolled in a health plan selected through a competitive procurement [1]. That plan holds the network, runs the authorizations and answers the questions further down this page.
Eligibility itself is the state’s decision. A treatment provider cannot assess it for you, and getting that answer first saves a wasted call later.
One piece of Florida context sits behind all of it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put Florida’s 2024 age-adjusted drug overdose death rate at 21.3 per 100,000 [7].
If someone is having a seizure, is unresponsive or has trouble breathing, call 911. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
Finding Out Which Plan Holds Your Benefit
Do this before any other call, because every answer below depends on it.
Look at the card. Under Statewide Medicaid Managed Care the plan name printed on it is the organization holding the network and the authorization process [1], and the state agency behind the program is not the body that approves an individual admission.
If the card is lost or the plan changed at a redetermination, the state is where to confirm which plan you are enrolled in now. Confirm it rather than assuming, because a request filed with last year’s plan goes nowhere slowly.
Once you have the name, the questions stop being general. Which providers sit in this plan’s network at the level of care recommended. What has to be approved in advance. Who files the request, you or the treatment provider. Three answers, all obtainable in one call.
Getting an Answer by Level of Care
Plans do not approve “rehab”. They approve a named level of care, for a set number of days, against medical necessity criteria.
Federal treatment guidance gives you those names. Its settings run from a doctor’s office up to acute care inpatient, with partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs in between [4]. It describes five detox levels, and puts round-the-clock medical supervision at the upper end [4].
So ask about one level at a time. Medical detox is one question. Residential treatment is another. A day program is a third. Each gets its own answer, and a general question gets a general answer that binds nobody.
Expect two decisions as well. Federal guidance defines detox as evaluation, stabilization and fostering the person’s entry into treatment, and says plainly that detoxification “is not substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation” [5]. Whatever follows withdrawal management is authorized on its own.
There is a practical version of that point worth carrying into the call. If withdrawal management is approved for a handful of days, the request for what comes next should already be in motion before those days run out, because a gap between the two is where people leave. Ask who is responsible for filing it and when they plan to.
Our explainers on Medical Detox and Levels of Care set out what each tier involves clinically.
Why a Bed Is the Hardest Thing to Arrange
Two different questions get asked as though they were one: is this covered, and can I get in. The first is about the benefit. The second is about the network, and the second is usually what stops people.
A managed care plan contracts with particular providers. A bed exists for you only where that contract exists, at that level, with an approval behind it. A refusal therefore often says nothing about whether Florida Medicaid covers residential treatment in principle.
Which is why the general question is the wrong one to open with. Ask instead which residential providers are contracted with this plan, and what has to be approved for you to reach one of them. Then ask how long that approval usually takes.
If the answer is that nothing is open nearby, keep going rather than hanging up. What will the plan fund now? How long is the wait for what it will not fund now? Starting a day program this week and moving up later is a real plan; waiting a month for a bed with nothing in between is how the intervening month goes wrong. Our walkthrough of How to Get Into Rehab covers what the first call needs from you.
Checking Florida coverage and admissions
The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health is at 4905 Lantana Road in Lake Worth, Florida. It runs medical detox, residential and inpatient treatment, a partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient programming and aftercare.
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The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health is part of our family of treatment centers. See the Palm Beach campus.
Our Florida Campuses, and How to Pick the Right One
Florida is the state where we run the most sites, so the first admissions question is usually which one rather than whether.
The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health is at 4905 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, Florida. Its own page publishes medical detox, residential and inpatient treatment, a partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient programming and aftercare [6].
We also run campuses at Umatilla, Orlando and Maitland. Their published levels differ from each other, so rather than guessing from a map, tell admissions the level of care an assessment recommended and let them say which site runs it and what is open.
On payment, the Lake Worth campus publishes its own accepted-insurance note. It says the campus is in network with most major insurance carriers including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and United [6]. That statement names commercial carriers and is not an answer about Florida Medicaid, so if Medicaid is your coverage, ask admissions to check it directly rather than reading a carrier list as a yes.
Our pages on Aetna Insurance Coverage for Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Cigna Insurance Rehab Coverage cover the commercial side of the same questions.
Marketplace, Employer and Self-Pay Alternatives
A plan through work. Households often hold two routes at once and only check one. If anybody in yours is employed and insured, that plan is worth pricing beside Medicaid, not after it, and parity law is why it is worth the call. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act stops a plan that covers mental health and substance use care from applying harsher limits to it than to medical and surgical care, with prior authorization and step therapy counted as limits alongside visit and day caps [2]. Its reach runs to non-federal governmental plans with more than 50 employees, private employer group plans with more than 50 employees, and the individual market [2]. Smaller employers fall outside, and their enrollees are protected through the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits requirement instead.
A plan bought on the Marketplace. Substance use disorder services are an essential health benefit on these, a pre-existing condition cannot be refused or surcharged, and yearly or lifetime dollar limits are not allowed [3].
Paying directly. This is a negotiation rather than a posted price. Ask the cost for each level of care separately, what a deposit actually buys, and whether the facility will structure payments. Our page on How Much Does Rehab Cost? sets out our own published ranges to argue from. Inpatient Rehab and Outpatient Rehab explain the tiers, Humana Insurance Rehab Coverage covers one more carrier’s structure, and How to Go to Rehab and Keep Your Job covers time away from work.
Beyond our own sites, the Nationwide Directory of Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities and the full list of Drug & Alcohol Rehab Facilities show where the family runs care. SAMHSA also runs FindTreatment.gov.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Florida Medicaid pay for drug and alcohol rehab? Behavioral health is part of the benefit, and substance use treatment sits inside it. Because most recipients are enrolled in a health plan under Statewide Medicaid Managed Care, that plan holds the network and runs the authorizations. Ask it about one named level of care rather than about rehab in general, and write down what it says.
Does Florida Medicaid cover medical detox? Withdrawal management is judged as its own level and approved on its own. Federal guidance describes five detox levels, with round-the-clock medical supervision at the upper end, so name the one an assessment recommended when you ask. Establish what needs approving in advance, and who submits the request.
Can I use Florida Medicaid at your Florida campus? The Lake Worth campus publishes an accepted-insurance note naming commercial carriers, which is not an answer about Medicaid either way. Ask admissions to check Florida Medicaid against your own coverage directly, and to say which of our Florida sites runs the level of care you need. That check is quick and it is the only answer worth acting on.
What are my options if Medicaid will not cover residential treatment? Ask the plan which residential providers are in its network and what has to be approved to reach one. Then ask what it funds instead and how soon. A day program starting this week often beats a bed a month away. If anyone in the household has an employer or Marketplace plan, check that in parallel, because parity rules apply to it.
How do I check my Florida Medicaid coverage? Work from the plan card rather than the program name, since most recipients are enrolled in a health plan. Ask that plan which providers are in network at the recommended level of care, what needs prior authorization, and who files it. Note who answered and the date, then have admissions run the same check alongside you.
Sources
- Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Florida Medicaid — Statewide Medicaid Managed Care. https://ahca.myflorida.com/medicaid
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/mental-health-parity-addiction-equity
- HealthCare.gov. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Health Coverage Options. https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/mental-health-substance-abuse-coverage/
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2006). Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment, TIP 45 — Chapter 2: Settings, Levels of Care, and Patient Placement. NCBI Bookshelf. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64109/
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2006). Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment, TIP 45 — Chapter 1: Overview, Essential Concepts, and Definitions in Detoxification. NCBI Bookshelf. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64119/
- The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health. The Recovery Village Palm Beach at Baptist Health, Lake Worth, Florida — Levels of Care and Accepted Insurance. https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/locations/lake-worth/
- National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Drug Overdose Mortality — Stats of the States. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/drug-overdose.html
This page is for general information and is not medical advice. Only a licensed clinician who knows your history can tell you what is right for you. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911. For free, confidential support 24/7, call or text 988.
Author
Chief Medical Officer,
The Recovery Village
