Referrals

Referral Provider Overview

Founded in 1971, CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is Rhode Island’s oldest and largest non-profit provider of outpatient Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment and recovery services. With seven community-based locations, as well as programming at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (DOC), CODAC is well-positioned to deliver services wherever they are needed across the state. For more than 45 years, CODAC and our physicians have worked with individuals, families and communities to provide comprehensive outpatient and community-based resources to those living and struggling with the challenges of substance use disorder, behavioral healthcare issues, and other addictive or abusive behaviors. CODAC programs are designed to promote recovery and to help participants acquire and utilize the skills necessary to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

CODAC has been a leader in adopting and creating programming which reflects emergent needs in opioid treatment recovery, and integrates evidence-based and best practice standards into service delivery. As part of our commitment to providing whole person care, CODAC has implemented onsite psychiatric and mental health services, trauma-informed care, specialized counseling groups for specific patient populations (e.g., pregnant/postpartum women, individuals involved with the criminal justice system and patients coping with PTSD). Our wellness programs include acupuncture, nutrition, and expressive arts, tobacco cessation, and problem gambling programs.

In 2013, CODAC became the first certified Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) in the United States to attain Health Home status. Health Homes are Medicaid supported programs that provide expanded services to patients, including linkages to community healthcare providers, housing opportunities, education and employment resources, and other wraparound services.

What a referral source can expect:

• Assessment of patients within 24 hours of referral
• Initiation of medication assisted treatment for patients, if indicated, within 48 hours of referral
• 24/7 access to CODAC’s on-call medical referral hotline for Emergency Department doctors
• For patients who have been prescribed a buprenorphine product, CODAC will stabilize the patient on their medication and refer back to the prescribing practice
• Regular status reports and care coordination as authorized by patients
• CODAC assumption of all responsibility for third-party identification
• Ongoing patient access to toxicology, behavioral health, and case management services, as indicated
• Referrals to office-based treatment providers (including CODAC) for patients stabilized on their medication, as appropriate
• ASAM level physicians, available during work hours, to provide consultation.

CODAC’s programming is sensitive to shifting trends in the community. In response to the opioid addiction and overdose crisis, we have introduced Naloxone overdose prevention education and direct access to Narcan kits for patients, families and the community. A recently launched fentanyl education program has provided important resources not only within the opioid treatment community, but has helped inform the larger community about this developing and devastating trend.

CODAC accepts Medicaid and Ritecare, as well as most forms of commercial insurance including: United Healthcare, Neighborhood Health Plans, Tufts and Blue Cross.