Acadia Healthcare Accused of Holding Patients Unnecessarily, Overbilling Insurance - Articles

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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Sep 3, 2024

Franklin-based Acadia Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest operators of psychiatric hospitals and treatment facilities, is the subject of a New York Times investigation. The newspaper looks into allegations that the hospital chain "lured patients into its facilities and held them against their will, even when detaining them was not medically necessary" in order to bill the patients' insurance, rather than out of a need for medical treatment. Tim Blair, an Acadia spokesman, said the patient examples cited by news outlet were not representative of many patients with positive experiences. Behavioral Health Business reports on the Times coverage, which focused primarily on four hospitals in Florida, Georgia and Missouri over a five-year period.