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…
Category: Bad Ethics
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.
Temecula rehab operator charged with insurance fraud, pleads innocent
John Oliver’s “Rehab” report
Predatory behavior on Facebook
Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook’s addiction support groups
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spent a year acting as a cheerleader for community support groups, especially those focused on addiction recovery. But scratching the surface of these organizations reveals the need for a referee, instead. Without that, there’s nothing to protect the most vulnerable people on the platform from this impenetrable tangle of altruism and e-commerce.
Legislators taking aim
Local lawmaker authors bill to stop patient brokering, insurance fraud among addiction patients
Local lawmaker authors bill to stop patient brokering, insurance fraud among addiction patients
As the opioid epidemic increases in California, more and more fake facilities are preying on desperate patients.
Inglewood women charged in $2 million scam involving Lancaster, Long Beach and Carson drug treatment facilities
Inglewood women charged in $2 million scam involving Lancaster, Long Beach and Carson drug treatment facilities
Both women have been charged with 21 counts of health care fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft stemming from the scheme that allegedly ran from 2009 through 2015.
