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I have worked in Mental Health for 20 years. These kinds of practices have been going on for decades. It did not start with the ACA.
by leo1smith 2y ago
I have worked in Mental Health for 20 years. These kinds of practices have been going on for decades. It did not start with the ACA.
- simonw 2y agoSure, it didn't start with the ACA, but this story implies that the ACA lead to a growth in this kind of bad behaviour: > Acadia was founded in 2005 by Reeve B. Waud, a financier, and grew slowly at first. But in 2011, the company went public and embarked on a major expansion. > The timing was ideal. Over the next several years, Acadia got a lift from Obamacare, which required insurers to cover mental health. Today Acadia has 54 inpatient psychiatric hospitals with a total of 5,900 beds. I'm not trying to imply that the ACA is bad here - just that the incentive provided by the requirement for insurance companies to cover this form of treatment inadvertently incentivized the kind of fraud described in the article. This is why legislation needs to be iterated on - to correct for unexpected consequences like this. Ideally the abuse described in this article would be prevented by further legislation - though there's always a chance that could open up further loopholes.