While running one of the nation’s most high-profile rehab centers, Christopher Bathum was busy as a sexual predator, an alleged insurance fraudster, and a phony psychotherapist.
The National Association is pleased to release the NAATP Addiction Treatment Provider Quality Assurance Guidebook: A Guide to the Core Competencies for the Delivery of Addiction Treatment Services (The Guidebook). The Guidebook identifies, describes, and provides implementation strategy for the core competencies of addiction treatment program operation, thereby empowering addiction treatment providers with clear direction for the proficient and ethical delivery of addiction treatment services.
Nicholas Cirio, the first person to be convicted by a jury for patient brokering in Palm Beach County, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo.
In a scheme to defraud insurers, Liberation Way coerced people in recovery to live in “sober homes” where they would be tempted to relapse – and then return to costly treatment, officials charge.
More than hundred people have been charged in South Florida in what federal authorities on Thursday called the largest health care fraud crackdown in history. According to the U.S. Department of Ju…
WEST PALM BEACH – Like dozens of others charged with patient brokering since prosecutors began their crackdown on Palm Beach County’s illicit drug treatment industry, James Kigar blames his legal woe…
