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Eating disorder treatment in Michigan

An estimated 880,000 Michiganders will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime, and most in-person specialty care is in three Lower Peninsula metros: Grand Rapids, the Ann Arbor / Detroit corridor, and the northern Detroit suburbs. Care ranges from inpatient stabilization and residential through partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and virtual programs.(source)

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About eating disorder treatment in Michigan

Sanford Behavioral Health in Marne runs the state's only standalone residential program. The University of Michigan Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program in Ann Arbor provides outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization care and coordinates inpatient medical admission. Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids offers inpatient stabilization, and Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids and Trinity Health Huron Oaks in Ann Arbor run partial hospitalization programs. The Upper Peninsula has no in-person specialty program, so residents there rely on virtual care or out-of-state placement arranged through their plan.

Paying for treatment in Michigan

Most commercial health plans in Michigan cover eating disorder treatment as a mental health benefit, subject to your plan's deductible, copays, and prior-authorization requirements for higher levels of care. In-network coverage depends on whether your specific plan contracts with the program you are considering.(source)

Michigan Medicaid and the Healthy Michigan Plan cover eating disorder treatment as a mental health benefit, with prior authorization and medical-necessity review for higher levels of care. Trinity Health Huron Oaks in Ann Arbor, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids, and New Oakland Family Centers in Bloomfield Hills accept Medicaid for their partial hospitalization programs. Children may also qualify through MIChild.(source)

Michigan's parity law mirrors the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act in state law, requiring Michigan-regulated insurers to cover mental health and substance use benefits with financial requirements and treatment limits no more restrictive than medical and surgical benefits.(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 Michigan

Where can I get residential eating disorder treatment in Michigan?

Sanford Behavioral Health in Marne, near Grand Rapids, is the only standalone residential eating disorder program in Michigan. It serves adult women with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and other specified feeding and eating disorders. Inpatient care is available at Forest View Hospital in Grand Rapids and through the University of Michigan system in Ann Arbor. Residential care Sanford cannot accommodate (adolescents, men, and most non-binary adults) is available only out of state.

Does Michigan Medicaid cover eating disorder treatment?

Yes. For higher levels of care, Michigan administers the benefit regionally rather than through one statewide network, so which in-state programs your plan covers can vary by where you live. Because contracts differ from one region to another, the treatment program can confirm whether it accepts your Medicaid plan.

What about eating disorder treatment in the Upper Peninsula or northern Lower Michigan?

Michigan's in-state specialty programs are all in the Lower Peninsula: greater Grand Rapids, the Ann Arbor area, and the Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Royal Oak suburbs north of Detroit. The Upper Peninsula has no in-person specialty program, and northern Lower Michigan (Traverse City, Petoskey, Alpena) has fewer in-person options. Residents in those regions can use a virtual outpatient or intensive outpatient program licensed in Michigan, then travel for higher levels of care.

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