Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. He died in November 2011. I put a lot of blame on insurance companies, too.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

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Real Psychiatry

JANUARY 23, 2025

I was a physician reviewer for all Medicare hospitalizations in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin for about 15 years. They could be barred from billing government insurers (Medicaid or Medicare). The FBI conducted many of these investigations and large fines were levied against clinics and in some cases teaching hospitals.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

People with ADHD are more likely to get into car accidents, 24 become hospitalized, and engage in self-harmthan are their neurotypical peers. 44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. 2011 Jul;15(5):403-11.

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