Tennessee Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Agrees to Resolve False Claims

Tennessee Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Agrees to Resolve False Claims
CRC owns and operates a residential substance abuse treatment facility in Burns, Tennessee, called New Life Lodge. The government alleged that, between 2006 and 2012, New Life Lodge billed the Tennessee Medicaid program (TennCare) for substance …
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Barriers Remain Despite Health Law's Push To Expand Access To Substance
"There is no illness that will be more favorably affected [by the Affordable Care Act] than substance abuse," said A. Thomas McLellan, former U.S. deputy drug czar and now chief executive officer of Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia. "This …
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