439 SW Michigan St.
Lake City, FL - 32025
(800) 330-5615
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Sliding Scale Service
Meridian offers:
Residential and inpatient servicesChild and youth servicesOutpatient servicesCorporate and professional developmentPaths to Wellness
Access Center hours-24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Payment is on a sliding fee scale based on income and other factors, also accepted is cash, self-payment, medicaid, state financed health insurance plan other than medicaid, private health insurance, and military insurance.
What is your current addiction that you are seeking help for? How long have you been addicted to it?
Crack and off and on since 2017
Alcohol 2 years
Crack powder and alcohol 10years
Ice, crack
Drinking
Have you ever been to a rehab facility before? How was it? What did you pay for treatment? (Let us also know the name of the treatment center)
I went to a outpatient program in Cincinnati Ohio it was great I didn't have to pay because I had Medicaid and the name was greater Cincinnati Behavior
Do you have health insurance? Do you have a high deductible?
Yes medicade
If you have any other information you would like us to know, please enter it here.
I can Control it, but sometimes I get To high... I have PTSD from being in Iraq
I have an addictive personality I just got out of prison recently have a hard time finding a job mood swings depression anxiety and I believe people may be watching me and out to get me I don't trust anyone
Have you ever had free rehab before? How did you get in to the program?
Yes I had a Medicaid
Do they accept ex felons?
Since many of our rehab centers are sliding scale, we have provided the Federal Poverty Guidelines below. Visit the Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc- Columbia County website listed above to see what the level is needed for free care based on your income from the sliding fee scale.
| Persons In Family Household | Poverty Guideline Salary per year |
|---|---|
| 1 | $15,060 |
| 2 | $20,440 |
| 3 | $25,820 |
| 4 | $31,200 |
| 5 | $36,580 |
| 6 | $41,960 |
| 7 | $47,340 |
| 8 | $52,720 |
*Alaska and Hawaii have different rates for HUD federal poverty guidelines.
These numbers above represent 100% of the Federal Poverty Rate. In order to get reduced or free treatment from some substance abuse centers, they use a sliding fee scale based on your income.
When they use a sliding fee scale, the 100% rate can be different than 100%. In those cases, using for example a 200% federal poverty level, you will only need double the 100% number listed above to 200%.
