Money madness. Are private psychiatric hospitals resorting to kidnapping in their quest for paying patients?
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.
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Carroll
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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