Table 4.12a Facility payment options, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2006 Number
Facility operation and primary focus	Total	Number of facilities1
		Type of payment accepted									Sliding fee scale	Treatment at no charge for clients who cannot pay
		Cash or self- payment	Private health insurance	Medicare	Medicaid	State- financed health insurance	Federal military insurance	No payment accepted	Access to Recovery (ATR) vouchers2	Other
Total	13,771	12,423	8,826	4,590	7,201	4,409	4,374	561	1,399	296	8,700	7,367
Facility operation
Private non-profit	8,111	7,284	5,144	2,871	4,820	2,814	2,492	404	990	177	5,678	5,122
Private for-profit	3,807	3,733	2,490	917	1,258	901	1,030	15	301	71	1,851	928
Local, county, or community govt.	896	810	597	417	645	408	367	34	38	18	737	617
State government	441	379	301	233	306	189	202	25	37	9	323	326
Federal government	331	142	203	85	74	40	246	34	10	14	57	224
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	186	124	155	62	45	22	150	7	4	7	44	151
Dept. of Defense	101	3	27	7	5	3	84	12	1	5	2	35
Indian Health Service	42	14	20	15	23	15	12	14	5	2	10	36
Other	2	1	1	1	1	- -	- -	1	- -	- -	1	2
Tribal government	185	75	91	67	98	57	37	49	23	7	54	150
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	8,577	7,682	4,819	1,749	3,805	2,201	1,813	433	945	186	5,298	4,635
Mental health services	1,050	973	871	736	775	507	588	11	65	12	671	512
Mix of mental health and substance     abuse treatment services	3,715	3,430	2,878	1,927	2,422	1,615	1,801	84	364	86	2,532	1,938
General health care	223	180	184	147	135	57	143	6	13	3	90	151
Other/unknown	206	158	74	31	64	29	29	27	12	9	109	131
1 Number of facilities sums to more than the Total column because a facility could accept more than one payment option.
2 Available only in CA, CT, FL, ID, IL, LA, MO, NJ, NM, TN, TX, WA, WI, and WY.
- -  Quantity is zero.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006.