What inpatient eating disorder treatment costs in 2026

What each level of care gives you, and what it charges

The level of care follows how much support the body and mind need right now. Each step down costs less per day and gives you more of your own life back.

A month at those residential rates comes to $30,000 to $75,000. A 2006 national survey of residential programs, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, found an average of $956 a day and an average stay of 83 days, about $79,000 for a full stay.⁶

Your daily rate pays for a team that works from one plan

Eating disorder treatment combines therapy, medical monitoring and nutrition counseling, the National Institute of Mental Health explains.⁷ Each part is a person on staff: a therapist, a physician or nurse, and a dietitian who plans meals with you.

The length of stay sets the total. At $1,500 a day, four weeks comes to $42,000 and eight weeks to $84,000. When you compare programs, ask each one for its daily rate, the stay it expects, and what the rate includes, in writing.

A house of eight where one team treats the eating disorder and the addiction beside it

Maui Recovery treats eating disorders alongside trauma, depression, and alcohol and opioid addiction, with up to eight guests at a time in three private homes on fifteen acres in Lahaina.⁸⁹

That breadth serves a common pattern. Eating disorders and substance use often occur together, and SAMHSA’s 2025 advisory finds that people do best when one coordinated team treats both.¹⁰

When the body needs medical stabilization first, a hospital eating disorder unit is the place to begin, and a residential program follows once you are stable. For an eating disorder that stands on its own, programs that treat eating disorders exclusively bring a dedicated medical and dietary team. Our eating disorder guide lists what to ask them.

In Europe, Paracelsus Recovery in Zurich lists eating disorders among its specialties and gives one guest at a time a full clinical team of its own.