Open data: the RecoveryCost.com dataset
RecoveryCost.com is built on public data, so we publish our directory statistics publicly too. This page shows what the dataset contains, exactly where it comes from, and how researchers, journalists, and policymakers may use it.
What the dataset covers
The directory spans four service lines of behavioral healthcare: substance use disorder treatment, mental health services, community health centers, and opioid treatment programs. Each published facility profile includes location, contact details, levels of care, services offered, accepted payment types, and — where a sourced figure exists — pricing that always carries a visible source label and an as-of date. The figures below are generated live from the same database that powers search and the state-by-state directory.
Published facilities
35,478
Live, browsable facility profiles
Government reported as of Jul 2026States covered
59
States, DC, and territories with published facilities
Government reported as of Jul 2026Service-code vocabulary
312
Normalized service, setting, and payment codes
Government reported as of Jul 2026Newest data import
July 27, 2026
Latest SAMHSA locator export processed
Government reported as of Jul 2026Facilities by type
Published facilities break down across the four service lines as follows. A single organization can appear under more than one type — a community health center that also provides substance use treatment counts in both — so these figures can sum to more than the total above.
Health Care Center
18,124
Published facilities
Government reported as of Jul 2026Mental Health
10,656
Published facilities
Government reported as of Jul 2026Substance Use
10,339
Published facilities
Government reported as of Jul 2026Opioid Treatment Program
2,070
Published facilities
Government reported as of Jul 2026Where the data comes from
The facility roster derives from the open data behind the federal treatment locator at findtreatment.gov, published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). We download the locator exports, normalize names and addresses, map services onto a consistent vocabulary, deduplicate records that appear in more than one source file, and enrich profiles with other public identifiers such as National Provider Identifiers.
Pricing is layered on separately and held to a stricter standard: every price on the site names one of four sources — facility verified, insurer rate file, government reported, or estimated — and shows the date it was current. The full pipeline, including how estimates are modeled and how disputes are handled, is documented on our methodology page.
Our refresh goal is a monthly re-import of the SAMHSA locator data, with the newest-import date above updating each time. Facility-verified corrections land continuously as facilities claim and update their profiles. We never scrape commercial directories; the dataset is built only from government and public sources plus data facilities submit to us directly.
Using and citing the data
Researchers, journalists, students, and policymakers are welcome to reference the statistics on this page and any figures published on the site. We ask two things:
- Cite RecoveryCost.com with a link to the page you used, so readers can see the live figure and its source label.
- Carry the source label and as-of date with any price you quote — a facility-verified figure and a modeled estimate are different kinds of evidence, and the label is what keeps that honest.
Because the underlying roster is U.S. government open data, we claim no ownership over the facts themselves — our contribution is the normalization, the pricing layer, and the sourcing discipline. If you need a custom cut of the data for research or reporting, contact us and we will help where we can. For how the site is funded and why that never touches the data, see How We Make Money and our editorial policy.
The annual State of Treatment Costs report
This page will also be the permanent home of our annual State of Treatment Costs report — a yearly, methodology-first look at what behavioral healthcare actually costs across the United States, built from the same sourced, dated figures that appear in the directory. Until the first edition publishes, the live statistics above are the best snapshot of the dataset, and our guides explain what drives treatment costs and how to read the numbers.
Explore the directory the data describes
The same database behind these statistics powers every facility profile — each price with a source label and an as-of date.