The Sponsored order
"Sponsored" is how search results are sorted unless you choose another order. Centers are placed in four steps:
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Paid placement. Centers on an active Premier plan come first, then centers on a Pro plan, then free listings. Every paid listing carries a gold badge, Premier or Featured, so you can always tell it apart.
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Trust. Within each group, paid centers we have verified come first. Then centers that manage their own listing, marked Claimed, then listings no one from the center has claimed yet.
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Reviews. Next, the star rating, weighted by how many reviews it's based on. A 4.7 from 120 reviews ranks above a 5.0 from a single review, and a center with no reviews counts as 3.5 stars.
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Daily rotation. Centers that are equal on all of the above take turns at the top. The order changes once a day, so paging through results doesn't reshuffle them.
Other ways to sort
Use the "Sort by" box above the results to choose another order. These leave payment out:
- Review Rating
- Highest star rating first, then the most reviews.
- Number of Reviews
- Most reviews first, then the highest rating.
- Center Name
- A to Z.
- Distance
- When you search near a place: the nearest centers first.
Paid centers in other searches
A Pro center can pick one city, and a Premier center up to three, where it also appears in search results, including searches within 10 miles of that city. A Premier center also appears in every city search in its own state. These centers are ranked by the same steps as everyone else and always carry their badge.
Paid centers also appear in the "Featured Centers" rows, labeled Ads, and first on our state pages. A paid center's own page doesn't show other centers. "Similar Treatment Centers" on a center's page is not paid: it shows centers that treat the same conditions in similar settings.
What the badges mean
- Premier Featured The center pays for a Premier or Pro plan.
- Verified A center on a paid plan whose license and business documents our team has checked (how verification works).
- Claimed Someone from the center manages the listing and keeps it up to date.
- No badge: the center hasn't claimed its listing yet. Its details may come from public sources, so check them with the center.
What payment can't change
- A center's star rating or its reviews. Ratings come from the center's Google listing (how we match them).
- Which searches a center matches. Treatments, insurance and other filters use what the center lists, whatever its plan.
- The other sort orders above.
A listing, a badge or a position on the page is not a recommendation or an endorsement. Before you choose a center, check its state license and accreditation, and ask about its treatment, costs and your insurance.
Need help now?
Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357: free, confidential and open around the clock.
