LA TIMES - CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS REVIEWING REHAB CENTERS - FRAUD REPORTS article by Chris Megerian.
"California officials are conducting a statewide review of taxpayer-funded drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in the wake of reports detailing fraud in the multimillion-dollar program. "We are deeply concerned," said Toby Douglas, director of the California Department of Health Care Services. "We have to put all our resources into fighting fraud in this program." The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN, in a series of joint reports beginning earlier this week, said some clinics have been billing the state for patients who don't show up or don't have substance-abuse problems. In the last two fiscal years, $94 million was sent to 56 clinics in Southern California where there was evidence of improper billing, the reports said.
A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THE HOMELESS. WHY? BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS BECAUSE THEY ARE DRUG ADDICTS and SOME SHELTERS ARE MOVING PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT DRUG ADDICTS TO REHABS or REQUIRING REHAB FIRST. IF YOUR CHOICE IS TO STAY ON THE STREET OR LIE THAT YOU NEED REHAB IS THERE A CHOICE?
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