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Eating disorder treatment in Florida

An estimated 1.9 million Floridians will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime, and the state has built one of the country's largest and oldest treatment systems in response. Care ranges from hospital-based inpatient and medical stabilization for children and adolescents through residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and virtual programs.(source)

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About eating disorder treatment in Florida

Most specialty programs are in the South Florida corridor from Miami through Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach, with smaller concentrations in greater Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville. The Renfrew Center of Florida runs residential and day-treatment care in Coconut Creek, Monte Nido provides adult and Clementine adolescent residential care in South Miami, Center for Discovery offers adolescent residential treatment in Montverde, Galen Hope runs day treatment in Coral Gables, and Koru Spring provides adult residential care in Jacksonville. The Panhandle and Southwest Florida, including Pensacola, Tallahassee, Fort Myers, and Naples, have little to no in-person residential or day-treatment care, so families there often rely on virtual programs.

Paying for treatment in Florida

Most commercial health plans in Florida cover eating disorder treatment as a mental health benefit, subject to your plan's usual deductible, copays, and prior-authorization requirements for higher levels of care. Whether a program is in network depends on your specific plan, and the program can confirm this for you when you call.(source)

Florida Medicaid (Statewide Medicaid Managed Care, administered by the Agency for Health Care Administration) covers eating disorder treatment as a mental health benefit, with prior authorization and medical-necessity review for higher levels of care. Children may also qualify through Florida KidCare, which spans Medicaid for Children, MediKids, Florida Healthy Kids, and the Children's Medical Services Health Plan.(source)

To start a benefits verification, call to be connected with a licensed eating disorder program.

See also: our insurance guides, how to verify your benefits, and how virtual eating disorder treatment works.

Common questions about eating disorder treatment in Florida

Where can I get residential eating disorder treatment in Florida?

Florida has one of the largest concentrations of residential eating disorder programs in the country, most along the South Florida corridor. The Renfrew Center's Coconut Creek campus sits in Broward County. Monte Nido offers adult residential care near South Miami and adolescent care (Clementine) nearby. Other in-state options include Center for Discovery in Montverde, ViaMar Health in West Palm Beach, Koru Spring in Jacksonville, Remedy Therapy in Stuart, and Oak House at The Refuge in Ocklawaha.

Does Florida Medicaid cover eating disorder treatment?

Florida Medicaid covers eating disorder treatment as a mental health benefit, and many in-state programs accept Medicaid plans. Acceptance varies by program and by level of care, so the program you call can check whether your specific plan is accepted.

How do families in the Panhandle and the Keys access eating disorder care?

Both regions are far from Florida's in-person specialty programs. The Panhandle west of Tallahassee is hours from Jacksonville and South Florida, so for many Pensacola and Panama City families, programs across the state line are geographically closer. The Keys connect to the mainland by one highway, with the nearest residential programs near Miami. For both, virtual outpatient and intensive outpatient programs licensed in Florida are the main option, with travel reserved for higher levels of care.

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Eating disorders we cover

Anorexia nervosaBulimia nervosaBinge eating disorderARFIDOrthorexiaOSFED (other specified feeding or eating disorder)

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