Saint Josephs Medical Center Positive Directions Outpatient Clinic

Saint Josephs Medical Center Positive Directions Outpatient Clinic is an addiction-treatment facility located in Staten Island, NY. The facility offers specific levels of care: Inpatient, Dual Dx. What follows is an orientation — not a review — to the practical questions worth asking before admission.

Care levels at Saint Josephs Medical Center Positive Directions Outpatient Clinic

The facility's documented care levels are The facility offers specific levels of care: Inpatient, Dual Dx. — each of which is appropriate for specific clinical presentations. Matching the level to the specific clinical need is the pre-admission work. 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

Payment and insurance specifics for Saint Josephs Medical Center Positive Directions Outpatient Clinic 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. What tends to produce post-admission financial surprise is not the facility being out of network — it is the verbal assurance that did not make it into writing. Ask for the written VOB before admission, save the email, and the rest of the financial conversation becomes a lot simpler.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI). Specialty programming varies substantially by facility — some facilities offer "dual diagnosis" as a marketing category but not a clinical differentiator. Ask for the specific clinical-team credentials and the actual hours of specialty-specific content per week.

Before you call

Before admission to Saint Josephs Medical Center Positive Directions Outpatient Clinic, 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 Saint Josephs Medical Center Positive Directions Outpatient Clinic offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care.