I feel like our son, and by extension, the whole family, is being held hostage by the mental health care system. Recently, he was accepted at a residential facility for treatment. It was approved by insurance and Medicaid. Then a company called Ascend Management got involved and denied coverage. If I try to discipline my…
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Frustrated with Doctors
His psychiatrist wrote up some fictional patient notes. Not sure where I was when the things she wrote happened in our appointment happened. They do this with impunity. How can they, in good conscience, tell the parent and child one thing, then write something else in the notes? It’s semantics I know, but here are…
Is Family Disruption Necessary in ND in Order for Children to Receive Long Term Residential Mental Health Care?
Say that I wanted to analyze the propensity of ND Medicaid to refuse funding beyond 365 days for PRTF/RTC level care. A component of this could include the psychiatrists telling parents that the best way to get the care a child needs is give up custody of their child. In part because in the psychiatrists…