Ethics in Treatment

Model Patient Protection And Treatment Ethics Act

Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

This is a lovely suggested model of a treatment ethics law that could use your attention. It was created by the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws.

Read it. If you like what it says, ask your legislators what they are doing to accomplish those patient safety goals.

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If someone dies….

Posted on November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

If somebody dies, even in drug rehab, shouldn’t it be a potential crime?
With enormous hope, Gail and Warwick Dunnett sent their son Harrison – a rapper, poet and musician who struggled with learning disabilities – to an addiction treatment center in Pasadena to get well. Harrison, 20, was giddy over his acceptance to the Los Angeles College of Music, and eager to start the next phase of his life.

Owner of California Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities Charged in Scheme to Defraud ACA Programs

Posted on November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

Owner of California Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities Charged in Scheme to Defraud ACA Programs
U.S. Attorney John H. Durham of the District of Connecticut, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the Boston Regional Office of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, Special Agent in Charge Brian C.

Important Questions For a Treatment Center for your loved one.

Posted on October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

Looking for drug rehab? Ask facilities these 11 questions first.
Looking for drug rehab? It can be extremely difficult – and horribly expensive. In some cases, families spend years and thousands of dollars before they find treatment that works. Michel Cote, whose two daughters are now in recovery from opioid and meth addictions, said it took his family 10 years and $200,000 to find a small clinic that finally helped.

Liberation Way employees plead guilty in Bucks County addiction treatment scheme

Posted on September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

Liberation Way employees plead guilty in Bucks County addiction treatment scheme
Three employees of a shuttered addiction-treatment program in Bucks County have pleaded guilty to charges in an elaborate, multimillion dollar insurance fraud scheme, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Wednesday. Prosecutors filed charges in March against 11 people and nine businesses associated with Liberation Way, a Yardley-based program that operated multiple treatment centers and unlicensed “sober houses” in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

Some rural hospitals used for big insurance reimbursements – and profit

Posted on July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

Some rural hospitals used for big insurance reimbursements – and profit
Some rural hospitals are being used to set up big paydays from insurance providers, raising questions about how insurance claims are reimbursed. Since 2010, 83 struggling rural hospitals have closed, and as many as 700 others are at risk of closing in the next decade.

Substance Abuse Treatment Center Owner Pleads Guilty to $57 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy…

Posted on July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

Substance Abuse Treatment Center Owner Pleads Guilty to $57 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy in Connection with Hospital Pass-Through Billing Scheme
The owner of a Jacksonville, Florida-area substance abuse treatment center pleaded guilty today for his role in a $57 million money laundering conspiracy associated with a pass-through billing scheme involving laboratory testing services. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S.

We got a nod! – Relapse for Cash: How Patient Brokers and Unscrupulous Rehabs Prey on Addicts Looking for Help

Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

Relapse for Cash: How Patient Brokers and Unscrupulous Rehabs Prey on Addicts Looking for Help | The Fix
If you think patient brokering, also known as “body brokering,” is just about “professionals” getting kickbacks for referring a client to a certain rehab, you are wrong. It’s much more complicated and sinister than that.

The Predatory Malibu Rehab Guru who Ripped off Obamacare

Posted on May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

The Predatory Malibu Rehab Guru Who Ripped Off Obamacare
He’s a convicted sexual predator who targeted women in his care. Soon he’ll be tried for an alleged $176 million insurance fraud. He’s an exceptionally bad person, but as a businessman he was fairly typical of rehab operators in America’s $42 billion-a-year treatment industry. His name is Christopher Bathum.

A deadly addiction recovery cycle

Posted on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 by Gregory Gooden

A disturbing new phase of the opioid crisis: How rehab recruiters are luring recovering addicts into a deadly cycle
The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old from a woody Atlanta suburb, had come to South Florida to leave her heroin addiction behind.