BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling

BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling is an addiction-treatment facility located in Alexandria, VA. The specific care levels offered by BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling should be confirmed directly with the admissions team. What follows is an orientation — not a review — to the practical questions worth asking before admission.

Care levels at BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling

Care-level specifics for BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling are not well-documented in the public SAMHSA record; a direct conversation with the admissions team is the reliable way to confirm what the facility actually provides. The useful move is to have an ASAM-aligned assessment done before admission — ideally by someone outside the facility's admissions team — to confirm that the level of care offered here is what the clinical picture calls for.

Insurance and payment

On insurance specifically: Payment and insurance specifics for BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling are not fully documented in the SAMHSA registry — a direct admissions conversation is the reliable way to confirm what forms of payment are accepted and at what network-contract level. Before admission, ask the facility's utilization-review team for a written Verification of Benefits — not verbal assurance, which is where most post-treatment financial surprises come from. Also ask for specific plan-level confirmation, not carrier-level (e.g., "your Aetna PPO plan" not just "Aetna").

Before you call

Before admission to BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling, three questions consistently produce the most useful information: (1) which ASAM level of care are you treating me at, and what is the clinical rationale; (2) can you send me a written Verification of Benefits for my specific insurance plan; (3) what is your policy on medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder — specifically, do you continue patients on buprenorphine or methadone during residential programming. If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether BASES Substance Use & Mental Health Counseling offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care.