Rehab Racket: Medi-Cal Fraud

REHAB BY THE NUMBERS $185.8 MILLION $29–$104 Amount spent on California's drug rehab counseling program inthe past two fiscal years Amount paid by Medi-Cal for each counseling session $9-$13 Typical hourly wage forrehab counselors, some of whom say they were pressured to falsify records $5 $94 MILLION Amount paid to clients of some rehab clinics every time they sign in Amount spent in the past two fiscal years on Southem California rehab clinics that have shown signs of deception or questionable billing The numberof people who die from drug or alcohol abuse in L.A. County nearly every day $3.6 MILLION Amount of money allocated in the past two fiscal years to a rehab clinic run by a felon $1.7 MILLION Amount of funding allocated in the past two fiscal years to a clinic that whistle-blowers say bills for "ghost clients" CNN CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING SOURCE: CIR researdch 2.