Health Net became the favored insurer of drug abuse patients in California. Then it stopped paying their bills. - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

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DEC. 06, 2017 – In early 2016, Health Net suddenly cut off payments to hundreds of for-profit substance abuse centers that had treated its enrollees … It’s not like being balance-billed for a broken leg,” says Joan Borsten, a former treatment center owner and vice president of the addiction center coalition. “Think of the impact when you’re just getting out of recovery and you’re handed a bill for $30,000.”