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How some Southern California drug rehab centers exploit addiction
LA Daily News ^ | 05/21/2017 | TERI SFORZA, TONY SAAVEDRA, SCOTT SCHWEBKE, LORI BASHEDA, MINDY SCHAUER,JEFF GRITCHEN, IAN WHEELER

Posted on 05/22/2017 10:47:54 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

---SNIP--- As broke as he is, Solomon is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chronic drug users like Solomon are commodities, exploited by a growing world of drug and alcohol rehab operators who put profit ahead of patient care. Everything from the opioid epidemic and Obamacare to prison realignment and legal loopholes has created conditions in which unethical operators can flourish, using addicts to bilk insurance companies and the public out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Though many legitimate centers remain, critics and long-time insiders say a darker version of the industry is emerging, built around an illicit world of patient recruiters, fraud-driven clinics and

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
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Interesting but very sad investigation on many levels.


Contributing reporters/authors are:
TERI SFORZA, TONY SAAVEDRA, SCOTT SCHWEBKE, LORI BASHEDA, MINDY SCHAUER, JEFF GRITCHEN, IAN WHEELER

1 posted on 05/22/2017 10:47:55 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

The federal government getting bilked our of our tax dollars on every hand, with no accountability for all these fake health programs. Many foreign scam doctors flock to these U.S. phony clinics like flies on manure.


2 posted on 05/22/2017 10:51:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Kid Shelleen

bookmark


3 posted on 05/22/2017 11:26:38 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Kid Shelleen

Once I noticed rehab clinics heavily advertising on TV and radio bragging that “it could be zero cost to you” I figured they must be scamming the insurance companies.


4 posted on 05/22/2017 11:32:29 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: KarlInOhio

+1.


5 posted on 05/22/2017 11:50:08 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

How do addicts get insurance?


6 posted on 05/22/2017 12:00:38 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl ("Amazing how far a 84 IQ and a James Brown wig can take you.")
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Øbamacare!

And you pay for it!

7 posted on 05/22/2017 12:04:55 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl
It's all explained in the article. Recruiters actually go body searching and get addicts to come to the "Rehab Riviera". Obamacare mandates insurance companies pay for recovery and apparently out of staters can pay for insurance when they arrive in California. A few months of insurance premiums can be leveraged into thousands of dollars of medical bills.

From the article:
under the rules of Obamacare, insurance companies are required to pay for addiction recovery. And through Covered California, insurance can be purchased the day you arrive from out of state.
8 posted on 05/22/2017 12:52:57 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Everything you need to know about the inevitable failure of any Progressive initiative is in this article. Mandating that treatment be covered by insurance and steering addicts from prison to treatment facilities seems oh-so-virtuous. The way Obmama care is implemented in California companies have to provide insurance the day someone arrives. Unscrupulous rehab operators recruit addicts and in some cases pay to bring them to the state and then use them to milk the system.

One thing is certain, the answer to this problem is more funding for drug-treamtment! /s


9 posted on 05/22/2017 1:05:55 PM PDT by Junk Silver (Hey Bill and Hillary - don't worry about Sessions. Some animals are still more equal than others.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Wow.


10 posted on 05/22/2017 1:58:01 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl ("Amazing how far a 84 IQ and a James Brown wig can take you.")
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