UAB Hospital – Center for Psychiatric Medicine – Birmingham, Alabama
619 19th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama, 35249
Last Updated: June 26, 2026

Insurance
Payment Options
- County or local government funds
- Community Mental Health Block Grants
- Community Service Block Grants
- Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- State education agency funds
- Cash or self-payment
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
- Medicare
- Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- State welfare or child and family services funds
- State corrections or juvenile justice funds
- Other State funds
Addiction Resource Score
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8.1
Out of 10
Treatment Options
The facility offers multiple levels of care, such as:
- Mentoring/peer support
The center treats the following addictions and co-occurring disorders:
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
- Persons with eating disorders
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Persons with Alzheimers or dementia
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Screening for tobacco use
Treatment Modalities
- Family counseling
- Individual psychotherapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Eating Disorder Treatment
- Nicotine replacement
- Group counseling
- Experiential Therapy
- Nutrition Therapy
- Marital/couples counseling
- Trauma-related counseling
- Couples/family therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
- Activity therapy
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
Conditions Treated
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Co-occurring Disorders
- Alcoholism
Levels Of Care
- Outpatient
- Hospital inpatient treatment
- Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
License and Accreditation
Ancillary Services
- Assertive community treatment
- Intensive case management
- Case management service
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Integrated primary care services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
- Suicide prevention services
- Supported employment
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Most private insurances accepted