title: Money madness. Are private psychiatric hospitals resorting to kidnapping in their quest for paying patients?
abstract: In their zeal for lucrative insurance reimbursement, some private psychiatric hospitals seem to have gone over the edge themselves. A number of these institutions, critics charge, use outright coercion to commit and retain patients. Now some formerly abducted "recruits" are fighting back with lawsuits.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Cowley
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Carroll
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Katel
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Gordon
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Edelson
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Springen
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Hager
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003068:Coercion; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003415:Crime / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003625:Data Collection; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D007358:Insurance, Psychiatric; D038622:Internationality; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D033242:Minors; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000592:standards; D028743:Professional Misconduct; D014481:United States