The New York Times reports that Acadia Healthcare, which provides methadone to addicts at 165 for-profit methadone clinics across the country, including Anchorage, has a business model built on deception.
Acadia is a for-profit company that is built on volume and that earned $1.3 billion in revenue since 2022, providing methadone, counseling, drug testing, and other services.
“But Acadia often fails to provide that counseling, according to five dozen current and former employees in 22 of the 33 states where the company has clinics. Instead, employees at times falsify the medical records that Acadia uses to bill insurers, according to the employees and internal emails,” the New York Times reported.
“Sometimes a counseling session recorded in a patient’s medical chart is simply a chance encounter. For example, medical records for a patient in Iowa show she had a 40-minute counseling session in December 2023, but the patient said in an interview that it was actually a hallway chat that lasted less than five minutes,” the newspaper reported. “Its counselors carry caseloads that are sometimes more than double the limit set by state regulators, according to employees and inspection records.”
The directors of the clinics can get bonuses based on the number of patients they enroll, which may have encouraged directors to treat people who are not actually addicted to opioids, but are addicted to other drugs that are typically not treated by methadone. In these instances, clients may be using the methadone to get high.
“With so many patients, the clinics can become assembly lines, offering little more than a cup of methadone,” the newspaper reports.
You mean to tell me a company that provides drugs to drug addicts is dishonest?
Doesn’t seem possible.
I can’t believe that a company would steal from the American taxpayer with government approval.
“I’m shocked — shocked — to find that gambling is going on in here!”
How many people knew the Acadia methadone clinic in Anchorage on C street even existed? This sure might explain some things in reference to area homelessness and lack of law abiding individuals.
When did meth become such a problem in Alaska?! I’ve clearly been living under a rock.
FREE LUIGI!
In other news,ABC news Ang George snuffleupagus settled with Trump for defamation in the Carroll case. They had to apologize for calling Trump a rapist.. 15 million dollar settlement to go to the Trump Presidential Library fund
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