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Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living, Inc., in Gary agreed to a $1.25 million pre-suit settlement for fraudulently billing the Indiana Medicaid system for mental health treatment, according to a ...
In the 2020 Virginia special legislative session on criminal justice reform and budgeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, House Bill 5043, titled the Mental Health Awareness Response and Community Understanding Services, or MARCUS alert system, introduced by Delegate Jeff Bourne, initiated a program to encourage use of mental health professionals ...
The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States. The bipartisan bill was co-authored by California State Assemblyman Frank D. Lanterman (R) and California State Senators Nicholas C. Petris (D) and Alan Short (D), and signed into law in 1967 by Governor Ronald Reagan. [1]
However, there must be a formal institutional hearing, the prisoner must be found to be dangerous to himself or others, the prisoner must be diagnosed with a serious mental illness, and the mental health care professional must state that the medication prescribed is in the prisoner's best interest. 14th 1992 Riggins v. Nevada
The mental health of a Malaysia Airlines pilot was probed in the investigation into the Fllight 370 disappearance in 2014, claiming 239 lives. Investigators said they found no evidence of mental ...
Moore said this bill builds on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Signed into law in 2008, this watershed legislation requires select insurance companies to provide mental health ...
Laura Wilcox was a 19-year-old college sophomore who had been valedictorian of her high school before going on to study at Haverford College. [1] While working at Nevada County's public mental health clinic during her winter break from college, on January 10, 2001, she and two other people were shot to death by Scott Harlan Thorpe, a 40-year-old man who resisted his family's and a social ...
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