Sandhills Center

Sandhills Center maintains contracts with 36 hospitals to provide Inpatient services for child, adolescent and adult members. Inpatient services provide treatment in a hospital setting, accessible 24 hours a day, by psychiatrists, physicians and other supportive medical professionals, when an individual cannot safely be served in a lower level of c... are. Inpatient services fill a particularly important community need for individuals who are being, or are actively considering being, harmful to themselves or others. Local Inpatient psychiatric beds funded through NC Department of Health and Human Services funding are funded through a different source and are not subject to this announced rate increase for Inpatient services. Sandhills Center is committed to working collaboratively with community partners to continually improve access to, and the availability of, high quality behavioral health services. We will continue to explore opportunities to make adjustments to services, reimbursement rates and service delivery models to more effectively meet the needs of our members and will make additional service rate increase announcements when available.Read More