Cost-Effective Innovations


To keep our eating disorder treatment costs affordable, we have developed several cost-effective innovations in patient care. Here are a few of them:

Our partial hospitalization level of care reduces overhead costs.
River Centre Clinic's Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) provides eating disorder treatment services that are similar to inpatient programs. However, since we are a clinic and not a hospital, we avoid many of the high-overhead costs inherent to hospital-based inpatient programs. In turn, we are able to pass that savings on into lower service costs.

PHP operates on a 5-day week rather than the 7-day week required for inpatient treatment. As a result, our PHP patients are billed for a 20-day month instead of a 30-day month. PHP provides 3 months of highly specialized and individualized treatment for about the same overall costs as 10 to 14 days of inpatient treatment.

How is this possible? Our experience has shown that our PHP patients can handle "unstructured free time" at night and on weekends without continuous staff monitoring. Therefore, they can live in safe and comfortable independent living quarters located either at or near the clinic.
We do not offer expensive "spa" types of amenities. 
We do not offer amenities such as massages, horseback riding, rock climbing, and swimming pools. While these amenities may be desirable for a resort community, we believe they have not been proven to enhance eating disorder treatment.

Our location enables our costs to be lower.

Our location in the Midwest may not offer breathtaking ocean or mountain vistas, but it keeps our costs lower than facilities located in more expensive regions of the country. However, we do provide our patients with spacious, comfortable, modern, and safe living accommodations in a quaint and quiet suburban community.

Services & Daily Rates

River Centre Clinic charges a flat daily rate for services in its Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for adults and its Adolescent Residential Program (ARP) for adolescents, which includes several services outlined in the chart below:

Partial Hospitalization Program
A flat daily fee is $525* (5-day week) and includes:

  • Diagnostic assessments
  • Individual treatment planning
  • Overnight Living Quarters 7-days a week
  • Two meals and afternoon snack Monday- Friday
  • Individual and Group therapy
  • Nutritional counseling
  • Staff-assisted meal planning
  • Routine medical monitoring
  • Psychiatric evaluations
  • Staff-assisted self-administration of medications
  • Discharge and aftercare planning

Adolescent Residential Program
A flat daily fee of $735* (7-day week) and includes:

  • Diagnostic assessments
  • Individual treatment planning
  • Staff monitoring 24-hours a day, 7 days-a-week
  • All meals and snacks
  • Individual and Group therapy
  • Family therapy
  • Nutritional counseling
  • Staff-assisted meal planning, self-admistration of medications and personal hygiene
  • Routine medical monitoring
  • Psychiatric evaluations
  • Educational support from a licensed teacher
  • Recreational outings and community activities with staff
  • Discharge and aftercare planning

*These rates are all-inclusive except for medications and lab work.

 

Cost Comparison: Partial Hospitalization vs. Inpatient Care

The following charts illustrate the costs of Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) eating disorder treatment at River Centre Clinic versus inpatient hospitalization at typical daily rates. Figure 1 provides a cost comparison between one month of PHP versus inpatient hospitalization at the typical rates of $1,000, $1,500 and $2,000 per day. Figure 2 provides the same cost comparison for 10 weeks of treatment.


Figure 1

Figure 1 provides a cost comparison between one month of the RCC partial hospitalization program versus inpatient hospitalization at the typical rates of $1,000, $1,500 and $2,000 per day.


Figure 2

Figure 2 provides the same cost comparison for 10 weeks of treatment.

Outpatient Services

River Centre Clinic also offers its Outpatient Program (OP) to provide counseling and mental health services on an outpatient basis to adults and adolescents who suffer from serious eating disorders as well as selected patients with a range of other psychological disorders. Please contact us regarding treatment costs.

Find out what is best for you

The best way to find out what is best for you is to contact us. You can fill out our on-line Initial Information Form or call our Intake Coordinator at (419) 885-8800 to:

• Determine the most appropriate level of care for your specific circumstances.

• Discuss payment options

We work with insurance companies and managed care plans to get our patients the help they need. We accept major credit cards. We can also arrange private payment programs.