Insurance Payments to Drug Addicts Lead to Relapse: Treatment Center Reps

An article from The Epoch Times reports that the practice of insurance reimbursement made directly to patients, specifically for substance use treatment, continues to be scrutinized, as the practice may lead to relapse. The issue occurs when patients see a provider outside of their insurer’s network and, because no contract exists between the insurer and service provider, reimbursements for services are sometimes made directly to patients.

Stampp Corbin, president of the Addiction Treatment Advocacy Coalition (ATAC), and Sherry Daley, an ATAC board member and executive of government affairs with the California Consortium of Addiction Programs, discuss how this practice affects the substance use treatment industry and the patients it serves.

Column: Health Net Became the Favored Insurer of Drug Abuse Patients in California. Then It Stopped Paying Their Bills.

In 2014, Gary Millman signed up his 28-year-old son James for health coverage with Health Net for a very specific reason. James had been battling drug addiction for close to a decade, and the Woodland Hills insurer offered the best coverage in California for substance abuse treatment.

There Is Another Side to the Addiction Treatment Story

Opioid Misuse: America’s Not-So-Silent Killer

Isn’t it time that the pharmaceutical industry and doctors be held accountable for the opioid addiction crisis that is killing 51 people each day who are addicted to prescription opioids? If Prince’s death begins that conversation, then his legacy will be much more than his music.

California Files Order Against Health Net for Stiffing Addiction Recovery Providers

For the second time in just over a year, California regulators warned insurer Health Net that it was violating state and federal laws by refusing to pay substance use treatment providers, a warning that could lead to millions of dollars in penalties.

Rehab Patient Brokering Is Rampant, but It’s Hard to Stop

The bill is not exactly dead, but its stagnation illustrates the difficulty of making changes within the recovery industry.

‘I’ve Now Dipped Into the Pie.’ Will COVID-19 Change Americans’ Views of the Social Safety Net?

How Some Southern California Drug Rehab Centers Exploit Addiction