ADAMHS Board for Montgomery County

Montgomery County Benefit Plan

The ADAMHS Board pays for many mental health and addiction services. Your treatment team will work to determine those services that fit your needs and assist with your recovery. Not all services are available to all clients and some services are limited in number of visits. These will be put into place starting November 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. On this page is the descriptions of Non-Medicaid service benefits.

Please talk this over with your treatment team to see if this may affect you. If you have questions about the services listed in your Individual Service Plan, talk them over with your treatment professional at your provider agency.

Mental Health Services

The ADAMHS Board pays for mental health services provided at many agencies.

Examples of Mental Health Services available:

Community Psychiatric Support
Individual and Group Counseling
Pharmacologic Management
Assessment
Vocational

Between November 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, if it is in your Individual Service Plan, you are eligible for:

104 hours of Community Psychiatric Support
24 hours of Pharmacologic Management
52 hours of Counseling
2 hours of Assessment by Physician
4 hours of Assessment (Non-Physician)
60 days of Partial Hospitalization
90 days of Residential Treatment
21 days of Temporary Housing

Alcohol & Other Drug Services

The ADAMHS Board pays for services to help persons with drug and alcohol abuse and addiction.

Examples of Alcohol and Drug Services available:

Case Management
Counseling
Medical/Somatic
Urinalysis
Prevention, Intervention

Beginning November 1, 2011, if you are over 21 and it is in your Individual Service Plan, you are eligible for a combination of these services for a total of 30 hours a week: Group and Individual Counseling, Case Management, and Medical/Somatic.

Between November 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, if it is in your Individual Service Plan, you are eligible for 90 days of Room and Board in a treatment facility.

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