Some rural hospitals used for big insurance reimbursements – and profit

Some rural hospitals used for big insurance reimbursements – and profit

CBS News investigation finds some hospitals have become gold mines for enterprising health care executives looking for a way to quietly make a quick buck

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

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.

Bucks drug rehab fraud made millions off patients’ relapses, Pa. attorney general charges

Bucks drug rehab fraud made millions off patients’ relapses, Pa. attorney general charges

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.

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…

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.

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