ABOUT ARLUCENT ASSESSMENTS

We work independently of everyone with a stake in the outcome: the party who referred you, treatment providers, employers, attorneys, and whoever will make the decision. Findings rest on the clinical information and on professional standards, not on what anyone hopes the report will say. That is the entire point of an independent evaluation, and it is why we are built the way we are.

Evaluations follow the ASAM Criteria and are conducted by a Minnesota-licensed clinician under the professional, ethical, and regulatory standards that apply to clinical assessment. They are provided by secure telehealth to people physically located in Minnesota at the time of the assessment. Reports are written to be clear, neutral, and defensible in the clinical, administrative, and legal settings they end up in. The evaluating clinician holds sole responsibility for the clinical judgment, the interpretation, and the documentation. The practice maintains formal written policies on informed consent, confidentiality, boundaries of service, record handling, and ethical compliance, which exist to protect the independence of the evaluation and to keep the roles from blurring.

The evaluator is not your treating provider, your consultant, your advocate, an expert witness, or the person who decides your case. The role is evaluation and documentation, and it ends there. Being independent does not mean being unreachable: we will answer limited questions to clarify what a report actually says, which is not ongoing clinical involvement, just a matter of making sure the document is understood.