Heroin addicts who want help face insurance denials
For example, specialists say before insurance companies agree to cover inpatient services they want evidence that an addict has tried one or more outpatient programs, has little or no outside support network, and has a health condition that makes …
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Frank Denton: Melissa Ann Jernigan the face of a broken system
That study ended with several recommendations: provide “assisted outpatient treatment” for released mentally ill prisoners, expand mental-health courts to allow offenders to choose between treatment and jail (Wildes said Duval has a “very rudimentary …
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