The DMA soon learned McClendon wasn’t alone. Several other mental health practitioners billed Medicaid in the neighborhood of $1 million a year likely the reason expenditures for one mental health program increased more than 11-fold in four years. Many Georgia children were actually recruited through door-to-door solicitation and flyers. That Fuller-Brush approach to psychiatric sales is not only atrocious. It’s also illegal.
Not only did this procedure subject children to dangerous psychiatric drugs and other treatments they did not need, it denied vital services to others. Medicaid funds were not available for such items as vision care and preventive dentistry.
Meanwhile, Aetna Life Insurance Company learned it had been victimized by psychiatric fraud on the other coast. Near the end of 1995, Aetna filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against psychiatric institutions owned by Paracelsus Healthcare Corp.
The suit stated that psychiatric hospitals in Southern California lured unsuspecting patients from throughout the country with false promises and improper perks. Once there, they received false diagnoses and were detained until their insurance coverage ran out. Aetna said it and other insurers lost millions in the plot to “put heads in the beds.”
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