Amid fraud allegations, rehab doctor OKs treatment without seeing patients
A Southern California doctor with a history of run-ins with regulators has approved treatment for more than 1,550 patients at publicly funded drug rehabilitation clinics now under investigation for fraud. Dr. Howard Oliver acknowledged that he never …
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PPACA may steer 40 million to drug, alcohol programs
The 40-million figure comes from the California Health Report, in an article which discusses how drug and alcohol treatment programs will be viewed differently under the act. (The California Health Report is a nonprofit civic journalism project.) “I …
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Substance Misuse Treatment Likely To Be Transformed by ACA
According to Richard Rawson — a professor of psychiatry and associate director of the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs — drug treatment in California was developed independently of medical care. "It's this weird mix of self-help, criminal …
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