Our Campuses and Georgia Medicaid
None of our treatment centers holds a Georgia Medicaid contract right now. If you have other coverage as well, such as an employer plan, admissions can check whether it is one we take. For Georgia Medicaid providers, use the federal treatment locator at FindTreatment.gov or call the number on your Medicaid card.
Call admissions: 855-520-2898
Checked against our contract list on September 25, 2026. Plans change; admissions confirms coverage before you travel.
Yes, and Georgia splits the job between two departments and four care management organizations, which is why people so often call the wrong one first.
Georgia Medicaid states it plainly. The Department of Community Health administers Medicaid reimbursement and associated policy for mental health treatment and services, in partnership with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities [1]. As Georgia’s Behavioral Health Authority, that second department provides services through a network of community providers [1].
The same page names a third body. It says the Department of Community Health also administers Medicaid-reimbursed behavioral health services for children and eligible adults through four care management organizations, and that those organizations authorize and reimburse services through their own provider networks [1]. The four it names are Amerigroup, Wellcare, Peach State and Care Source [1].
So one department decides what Medicaid pays for. Another holds the network you actually get treated in. And if you are enrolled with one of the four, that organization is the one authorizing an admission. A question about payment policy and a question about where a bed is go to different places.
This page covers who holds what, how to get an answer by level of care, why a bed is the hardest part, our three Georgia campuses, and the alternatives. Our guide to Does Insurance Cover Rehab? covers the wider picture, our Georgia treatment page lists what runs in the state, and you can verify your insurance with admissions at any point.
Who Holds What in Georgia
Start with one question: are you with one of the four care management organizations? Georgia Medicaid names them as Amerigroup, Wellcare, Peach State and Care Source, and says they authorize and reimburse behavioral health services through their own provider networks [1]. If you are with one of them, that is where an admission is authorized, so start there.
Reimbursement policy sits with the Department of Community Health [1]. If the question is whether Medicaid pays for a service at all, that is the policy side.
Delivery sits with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, named on the state’s own page as Georgia’s Behavioral Health Authority and described as providing services through a network of community providers [1]. If the question is which provider, at which level, with what wait, that is the network side.
Eligibility is separate again, and it is the state’s decision rather than a treatment provider’s. Settle that first if it is unsettled, because the rest of the sequence depends on it.
One piece of context sits behind all of this. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put Georgia’s 2024 age-adjusted drug overdose death rate at 18.1 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.
Getting an Answer by Level of Care
Nobody approves “rehab”. Approvals attach to a named level of care, for a set number of days, against medical necessity criteria.
Federal treatment guidance supplies the names you need. Its settings run from a physician’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].
Ask about one at a time, and use the federal wording. Medical detox is one question with one answer. Residential treatment is a second. A day program is a third.
Our explainers on Medical Detox and Levels of Care set out what each tier involves clinically.
The Join Between Detox and What Follows
This is the part of a Medicaid sequence that fails quietly, and it is worth its own heading.
Federal guidance defines detox as evaluation, stabilization and fostering the person’s entry into treatment. It then says plainly that detoxification “is not substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation” [5]. Two separate things, two separate approvals.
Withdrawal management is typically approved for a handful of days. If the request for residential or outpatient care is only written once those days have run out, the person spends the gap unfunded and at home, which is where a good week turns into a lost one.
So make the join a question rather than an assumption. Who files the second request, when do they plan to file it, and what happens if it is refused. Ask that at admission, not at discharge, and write down the answer with a name against it.
Georgia’s arrangement gives that question a second edge. Because reimbursement policy, the community provider network and care management organization authorization sit in different places [1], the person answering about the next level of care may not be the person who answered about the first one.
Why a Bed Is the Hardest Part
Coverage and access are not the same thing, and it is access that usually does the stopping.
Georgia’s behavioral health services reach people through a network of community providers [1]. A bed exists for you where that network holds one, at that level, with an approval behind it. A no at that point is frequently a statement about capacity and contracts, not about the benefit.
The state publishes a front door to that network. Georgia Medicaid says community providers of behavioral health services can be reached by contacting the Georgia Crisis and Access Line [1]. If you are with a care management organization, its own provider network is the other place to ask [1].
Which is why the productive question is narrow. Which providers are contracted at the level an assessment recommended. What has to be approved for you to reach one. How long that approval usually takes. Three answers, one call, all worth writing down with the date beside them.
And if the answer is that nothing is open, keep the call going. What will be funded this week? How long is the wait for what will not be? Starting somewhere now and stepping up later is a plan a clinician can work with. A month of waiting with nothing arranged is not. Our walkthrough of How to Get Into Rehab covers what the first call needs from you.
Checking Georgia coverage and admissions
The Recovery Village Atlanta is at 11725 Pointe Place in Roswell, Georgia. It runs medical detox, residential and inpatient treatment, a partial hospitalization program, dual diagnosis care and aftercare, and its own page describes a 31,000-square-foot facility with 58 beds.
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The Recovery Village Atlanta is part of our family of treatment centers. See the Recovery Village Atlanta campus.
Our Three Georgia Campuses
We run three sites in Georgia, in different parts of the metro, and their published levels are not identical. So the first admissions question is which one rather than whether.
The Recovery Village Atlanta is at 11725 Pointe Place, Roswell, north of the city. Its own page publishes medical detox, residential and inpatient treatment, a partial hospitalization program, dual diagnosis care and aftercare [6], and describes a 31,000-square-foot facility with 58 beds [6].
The other two are south and east of Atlanta, at Stockbridge and Dacula. Their published levels differ from Roswell’s, so tell admissions what an assessment recommended and let them say which site runs it and what is open, rather than choosing from a map.
A bed count is worth a word, because it is the kind of figure pages invent. Fifty-eight is the number the Roswell campus publishes about itself, on two of its own pages [6]. Our other Georgia sites publish no comparable figure, so this page gives none for them, and “ask admissions” is the honest answer there rather than an estimate.
On payment, the Roswell 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]. Those are commercial carriers, and the note is not an answer about Georgia Medicaid, so ask admissions to check Medicaid against your own coverage 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.
Georgia Access, Employer Plans and Self-Pay
Georgia Access. Georgia runs its own exchange. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services list Georgia as a state-based exchange operating Georgia Access, so individual coverage is bought there rather than on the federal site [2]. Marketplace plans cover mental health and substance use disorder services as an essential health benefit, cannot refuse or surcharge a pre-existing condition, and cannot apply yearly or lifetime dollar limits [3].
A plan through work. Insurance in one household often comes from two directions at once, and only one of them gets checked. If someone in yours is employed and covered, that plan deserves a call of its own. Parity law is what makes the call worth the time: the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act stops a plan covering 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 [8]. The plans it reaches are non-federal governmental plans with more than 50 employees, private employer group plans with more than 50 employees, and the individual market [8]. Below that size, employers fall outside it, and their enrollees are protected through the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits requirement.
Paying directly. Price each level of care on its own, ask what a deposit actually secures, and ask whether the facility will structure payments over time. Our page on How Much Does Rehab Cost? publishes our own ranges to argue from. Inpatient Rehab and Outpatient Rehab explain what the tiers involve, Humana Insurance Rehab Coverage shows one more carrier’s structure, and How to Go to Rehab and Keep Your Job deals with time away from work.
Where none of those routes reaches, the Nationwide Directory of Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities and the full list of Drug & Alcohol Rehab Facilities show the rest of the family. SAMHSA also runs FindTreatment.gov.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Georgia Medicaid pay for drug and alcohol rehab? It does, and the work is shared. Reimbursement and policy sit with the Department of Community Health. The services themselves are delivered by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities through a network of community providers. For members in managed care, one of four care management organizations authorizes and reimburses the service through its own network. Knowing which of those your question belongs to is most of the difficulty.
Does Georgia Medicaid cover medical detox? Detox is treated as a level of care in its own right and signed off separately from anything that follows. There are five of them in federal guidance, with medical supervision around the clock only at the top of the range. Say which one an assessment recommended. Then find out what needs approving before admission, and whose job it is to send that request.
Can I use Georgia Medicaid at your Georgia campus? Not a question this page can answer honestly. What the Roswell campus publishes is an accepted-insurance note naming Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and United, which is a statement about those carriers. Put Medicaid to admissions directly, and ask in the same breath which of our three Georgia sites runs the level of care you were told you need.
What are my options if Medicaid will not cover residential treatment? First establish whether you have hit a coverage wall or a capacity one, because they need different responses. Ask which providers hold a contract at that level and what approval takes. Then ask what can start immediately. Beginning treatment at a lower level this week and moving up is usually better than waiting. A household employer or Marketplace plan is worth checking at the same time; parity rules reach those.
How do I check my Georgia Medicaid coverage? Start with Georgia Medicaid’s own managed-care arrangement. Find out whether you are with one of the four care management organizations – Amerigroup, Wellcare, Peach State or Care Source – because if you are, that is where an admission is authorized. If you are not, decide which side you are calling: reimbursement policy on one, the community provider network on the other. Then ask three things – which providers hold contracts at the level recommended, what prior authorization applies, and who files it. Keep the name and the date of whoever tells you, and let admissions repeat the exercise independently.
Sources
- Georgia Department of Community Health, Georgia Medicaid. Behavioral Health Services. https://medicaid.georgia.gov/types-services/behavioral-health-services
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. State Marketplaces — Declaration Letters and Conditional Approvals. https://www.cms.gov/cciio/resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/state-marketplaces
- 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 Atlanta. The Recovery Village Atlanta, Roswell, Georgia — Facility Overview, Levels of Care and Accepted Insurance. https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/locations/atlanta/
- 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
- 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
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
