… A related set of medical bills has not garnered much attention yet may rank among the most
… for patients and families—bills for involuntary psychiatric care. Billing patients for involuntary …

… , hospitals assumed that involuntary commitment extinguished the patient's liberty interests,
… defecating on the sidewalk, burning dollar bills, and screaming obscenities when assistance …

… involuntary commitment on subsequent mental health treatment experience is poorly understood.
We examined whether history of involuntary commitment … 0.1029 least able to pay bills …

… patient before the expiration of the original commitment order.… turning to involuntary outpatient
commitment in increasing … legislation or considering pending bills to authorize IOC. Since …

… Subjects were screened sequentially from a group of involuntarily hospitalized patients who
… all billed case management services was calculated. Although it is clear that billing records …

… This project focused on patient ethnoracial identity and involuntary hospitalization. The …
primary billing diagnosis and secondary psychiatric diagnoses listed on the discharge summary). …

… the same title as their book and bills itself as “psychiatrists writing for psychiatrists,… involuntary
commitment process, whether they are expressed in the angry voice of an unwilling patient …

… Overall, the total billed charges for the ED visits across IC and non-IC patients were not
significantly different, with a mean of $6130 (95% CI [$5334–$6926]) compared with a mean of …

… expanded the state's civil commitment laws to facilitate … at a challenging population of
involuntary state hospital patients. The … Providers also were required to perform “shadow billing” …

… of billing patients directly. Additional hospital costs will have to be negotiated with the … ,
involuntary hospitalization should be considered when the patient meets civil commitment criteria …