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Imagine trying to hold down a job while struggling with alcohol or drugs, but having no way to pay for help because the addiction is eating your cash flow.
The nonprofit rehabilitation program Community Recovery Resources, in Grass Valley, soon will be able to help such people by working with the client’s health insurance to pay for services.
CoRR staff is setting up the program and hopes to offer it by the end of the year, according to Development Director William Locker. CoRR will announce which insurance carriers are involved and a starting date at that time.
It’s a major step in the evolution of the drug-and-alcohol treatment center started in 1974 as the Nevada County Council of Alcoholism. It now serves about 950 clients,
Executive Director Warren Daniels said.
“For years, the medical community and recovery community haven’t shaken hands,” Daniels said this week. “It was because doctors couldn’t send us some people who had to pay for services and, of course, people in crisis don’t have the money.”
Low-income people often can rely on state and social services for help getting treatment, Daniels said. Many middle- to upper-income people in Nevada County don’t qualify for that kind of help because they make too much money or because no facility will accept their insurance.
“A family might be making $60,000 to $70,000 per year, but nothing is paid for them,” Locker said.
Now, well-heeled addicts have a place to go.
CoRR earned the right to charge insurance companies from an international treatment accrediting company that inspected the organization over a period of four days to see if they could handle the load.
The accreditation allows CoRR to offer outpatient and inpatient treatment for drug, alcohol and mental health issues involved with addiction for children, adolescents and adults. It will also allow a residential treatment program for adults.
How many more people will come through CoRR’s doors with the new program is unknown, Locker said.
But both he and Daniels believe the demand is there: Area residential treatment programs already have a waiting list.
The nonprofit rehabilitation program Community Recovery Resources, in Grass Valley, soon will be able to help such people by working with the client’s health insurance to pay for services.
CoRR staff is setting up the program and hopes to offer it by the end of the year, according to Development Director William Locker. CoRR will announce which insurance carriers are involved and a starting date at that time.
It’s a major step in the evolution of the drug-and-alcohol treatment center started in 1974 as the Nevada County Council of Alcoholism. It now serves about 950 clients,
Executive Director Warren Daniels said.
“For years, the medical community and recovery community haven’t shaken hands,” Daniels said this week. “It was because doctors couldn’t send us some people who had to pay for services and, of course, people in crisis don’t have the money.”
Low-income people often can rely on state and social services for help getting treatment, Daniels said. Many middle- to upper-income people in Nevada County don’t qualify for that kind of help because they make too much money or because no facility will accept their insurance.
“A family might be making $60,000 to $70,000 per year, but nothing is paid for them,” Locker said.
Now, well-heeled addicts have a place to go.
CoRR earned the right to charge insurance companies from an international treatment accrediting company that inspected the organization over a period of four days to see if they could handle the load.
The accreditation allows CoRR to offer outpatient and inpatient treatment for drug, alcohol and mental health issues involved with addiction for children, adolescents and adults. It will also allow a residential treatment program for adults.
How many more people will come through CoRR’s doors with the new program is unknown, Locker said.
But both he and Daniels believe the demand is there: Area residential treatment programs already have a waiting list.
To contact Senior Staff Writer Dave Moller, e-mail dmoller@theunion.com or call 477-4237.
