Locals rally against drug treatment cuts

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

Pat McCrory. Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center is an inpatient facility with 80 beds on Tabernacle Road. The state says the center has 214 employees. Closing it and two other state treatment centers, which also have 80 beds each, …
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MD Going to Prison in Stent Case; Heat Is on Medical Necessity

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

Although recovery audit contractors and Medicare administrative contractors are focused on the medical necessity of inpatient admissions, there is also greater scrutiny of whether services were reasonable and necessary — and auditors may be armed with …
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Pushing the mentally ill into prisons

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

State hospitals were under attack during this time for cruel and inhumane treatment of mentally ill patients, so state legislators believed funding this drug would save millions of dollars by emptying psychiatric hospitals beds while they escaped …
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Alderman: addiction treatment center closure 'disastrous'

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

Pat McCrory. Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center is an inpatient facility with 80 beds on Tabernacle Road. The state says the center has 214 employees. Closing it and two other state treatment centers, which also have 80 beds each, …
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