Lifelong

Located in Berkeley, CA, Lifelong operates in CA's broader addiction-treatment market. The specific care levels offered by Lifelong should be confirmed directly with the admissions team. What this page tries to do is frame the specific questions worth asking, which are rarely the ones that get asked first.

Care levels at Lifelong

Care-level specifics for Lifelong are not well-documented in the public SAMHSA record; a direct conversation with the admissions team is the reliable way to confirm what the facility actually provides. The level-of-care question is where a lot of misaligned placements happen — a patient who needs residential ends up in IOP, or vice versa. The protection is a clinical assessment outside the facility's admissions team.

Insurance and payment

Payment and insurance specifics for Lifelong 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. Most post-treatment billing disputes trace back to a specific moment when an admissions counselor said one thing and the benefits department later documented something else. Avoid the moment by getting the written VOB before admission, not after.

Before you call

Three questions for Lifelong before you sign anything: what ASAM level you are being admitted at; what the written VOB says for your plan; how the program handles MAT. If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether Lifelong offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care. These three together tell you most of what a facility's about.