“If you’ve got lots of good insurance, you’re going to wind up in the hospital.” – Walter Afield, M.D.
President Mental Health Programs CorporationAs this article goes to press, a new scandal is brewing in Colorado. While other health care providers were forced to endure Medicaid cuts, psychiatric facilities for youth were allowed to continue billing at higher rates. Seeing the availability of funds, greedy psychiatric centers signed up children and adolescents faster than the state could raise the money. As reported on July 10, 1996, in The Denver Post, “The centers in turn have become victims of their own success; once they saw that more state money was available, more residential centers signed up with Medicaid ... [and] the state responded to the higher caseloads by dropping the per-case rates.” The Denver Business Journal offered a clue as to why psychiatric centers glutted with staff claimed they could not endure the cuts imposed on the rest of the health care industry. The Journal reported that the state-run Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan had 15 psychiatrists and 15 psychologists on staff but only 24 beds. Charter Centennial Peaks Behavioral Health System maintained 97 psychologists and 22 psychiatrists to care for patients in 72 beds. One “frugal” hospital of 57 beds limits its psychiatric staff to 50.
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