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.
Category: Body Brokers
First person found guilty of patient brokering sentenced to 3 years
“Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs”
A look at South Floridians charged in health care fraud, opioid crackdown
Part of why we’re seeing less prosecutions
Kickbacks for Florida treatment center totaling nearly 250k
California Lawmakers Want To Crack Down On Fraud At Drug Rehab Centers.
California Lawmakers Want To Crack Down On Fraud At Drug Rehab Centers. Will It Work?
Some lawmakers are aiming to cut down on corruption at addiction-recovery facilities by changing the way insurance companies reimburse providers. There are a whole host of problems with the drug rehab industry, according to a major investigation by the Southern California News Group: No degree, medical or otherwise, is required to get a facility license; and some centers are administering subpar, and even unnecessary, care and then billing insurance companies for it in the hopes of earning high reimbursements.
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. WEST PALM BEACH – A former Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy who in 2016 ran for a seat in Florida’s House is facing more patient brokering charges for his treatment center’s allegedly illegal business dealings, West Palm Beach police records show.
A Federal answer to body brokering?
The Health 202: How the opioids bill could halt exploitation of addicted Americans
Much of the 660-page opioids package President Donald Trump could sign this week aims at expanding access to treatment and limiting opportunities for people to become addicted in the first place. But a five-page provision near its end seeks to protect drug-addicted Americans from a strange and particularly egregious kind of exploitation.
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 “body brokers,” are charged in what authorities say was a scheme to fraudulently bill insurance companies for experimental, unnecessary and potentially harmful surgeries on recovering addicts.
