California Lawmakers Want To Crack Down On Fraud At Drug Rehab Centers. Will It Work?
Some of California’s substance abuse treatment facilities have been exploiting clients in hopes of getting big payouts from insurance companies, according to lawmakers. A handful of bills aim to rein in fraudulent practices.
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Ex-PBSO deputy faces more patient brokering charges
Ex-PBSO deputy faces more patient brokering charges
Robert “Bobby” Simeone faces 25 counts of patient brokering for his ties to an unlicensed sober home on a Loxahatchee Groves horse farm.
Submitting fake insurance claims – It doesn’t pay
Sober-home operator submitted fake insurance claims, authorities say
James Durkin had operated two businesses in Boynton Beach.
Cracking down on abuses
County passes registry for some drug rehab centers to crack down on abuses
The law, requiring licensed addiction treatment providers to register annually with the county Health Care Agency, may be the first in California.
A Federal answer to body brokering?
New Addiction Treatment Related Laws enacted in California!
New rehab laws may revamp addiction treatment in California
“I see this as an advance for the health of Californians, and it was a great call by the governor to sign it.” Dr. David Kan, president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine.
11 charged in multimillion-dollar insurance fraud case involving surgeries on recovering addicts
11 charged in multimillion-dollar insurance fraud case involving surgeries on recovering addicts
The owner and an employee of a Fountain Valley-based treatment facility, along with five doctors and four so-called body brokers, have been arrested and charged in what authorities say was a scheme to fraudulently bill insurance companies millions of dollars for experimental, unnecessary and…
Treatment CEO’s ask for increased regulation.
In a Hearing About Addiction Treatment Companies’ Sketchy Advertising Practices, CEOs Ask for More Regulation
Normally trade groups lobby for less government oversight, but not in this case.
Recruiters pay vulnerable addicts to try experimental treatment to kick heroin
Recruiters pay vulnerable addicts to try experimental treatment to kick heroin
A CBS News investigation found that addicts are being paid hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars in cash to get the 30-minute outpatient procedure
The Ethics of Implant Therapy
Body Brokering in Addiction Part 2: Implant Therapy
Updated: September 19, 2019 (Since the original publication of this article, two naltrexone implants are in process of seeking FDA approval to offer legitimacy and legality to a once contaminated money-making, body-brokering machine. Scroll to the end of this article for updates.
