Substance Use Disorder Residential Programs - Adult

Tufts Health RITogether

We use the ASAM Criteria, designed by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, as clinical guides to improve assessment and outcomes-driven treatment and recovery services for members. ASAM criteria are a collection of objective guidelines that give providers and clinicians a way to standardize treatment planning and patient placement for treatment, as well as how to provide continuing, integrated care and ongoing service planning.

ASAM Criteria use “multidimensional” assessments and guide treatment professionals, and intensity of treatment “levels” of cares that connect to each other to act as benchmarks. Members can move through levels, depending on unique needs. In addition ASAM Criteria use separate criteria and levels of care benchmarks for adults and adolescents.

Resources

Refer to ASAM Introduction Fact Sheet

Importantly, purchase of The ASAM Criteria, Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related and Co-Occurring Conditions, Third Edition, 2013 is highly recommended for providers to have on hand.

Refer to the Tufts Health Rhode Island Together Behavioral Health Prior Authorization (PA) and Notification Grid for prior authorization and notification requirements.

Services

Contact information

  • Provider Services number: 844.301.4093
  • Fax number: 857.304.6404