Montgomery Counseling Service

Montgomery Counseling Service is a SAMHSA-registered addiction-treatment facility in Williston, ND. The facility's programming is outpatient (IOP), not residential. This page frames the questions that matter most when evaluating a specific program — the ones that separate useful candidates from marginal ones.

Care levels at Montgomery Counseling Service

On care levels: Montgomery Counseling Service is an outpatient-focused program (IOP) — patients live at home or in sober living and attend treatment sessions. This level of care is clinically appropriate for mild-to-moderate substance use disorder, or for patients stepping down from residential. The critical pre-admission step is an independent clinical assessment that establishes ASAM 4e level-of-care recommendation. Admission at a facility whose offered level does not match the clinical assessment produces most misaligned-placement outcomes.

Insurance and payment

Montgomery Counseling Service accepts both Medicaid and commercial insurance, which is the broadest payer profile and typically correlates with programs that operate at scale across the economic spectrum. The operational prerequisite is written documentation: in-network status for your specific plan product, deductible accumulation, coinsurance rate, prior-authorization status. Admissions without these four documented carry material risk of post-admission financial disagreement.

Specialty programming

The facility's documented specialty programming includes: Young adults, Adult women, Pregnant/postpartum women. Evaluating specialty capacity requires asking specifically: what clinicians deliver the specialty content, with what credentials, for how many hours per week. Marketing designation without documented clinical infrastructure is a recognized pattern worth filtering out.

Before you call

The operational due diligence on Montgomery Counseling Service comes down to three documents: ASAM-aligned level-of-care documentation matching independent clinical assessment, written Verification of Benefits for your specific plan product, written MAT policy. If the clinical situation involves opioid use disorder, confirm explicitly whether Montgomery Counseling Service offers medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone. Programs that do not are operating outside the current standard of care.