Criticism
As the opioid crisis worsens in the U.S., more and more drug rehabilitation centers have emerged to help victims with their addictions.[1] Under the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity Act, rehabilitation centers are able to bill insurance companies for substance abuse treatment. With long waitlists in limited state funded rehabilitation centers, controversial private centers rapidly emerged.[1] One popular model, known as the Florida Model for rehabilitation centers, is often criticized for fraudulent billing to insurance companies.[1] Under the guise of helping patients with opioid addiction, these centers would offer addicts free rent or up to $500 per month to stay in their "sober homes", then charge insurance companies as high as $5,000 to $10,000 per test for simple urine tests.[1] Since 2015, these centers have been under federal and state criminal investigation.[1] Despite this, there are too many of these centers around the country for agencies to investigate completely. As of 2017 in California, there are only 16 investigators in the CA Department of Health Care Services investigating over 2,000 licensed rehab centers.[2]
- ^ a b c d e SEVILLE, LISA; SCHECTER, ANNA R.; RAPPLEYE, HANNAH. "Florida's Billion-Dollar Drug Treatment Industry Is Plagued by Overdoses, Fraud". NBCnews.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ SFORZA, TERI; et al. "How some Southern California drug rehab centers exploit addiction". ocregister.com.
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