In a welcome sign to the vast majority of treatment programs that rely on Google Ad Words and its search engine for patient lead identification, the...
Justice Department to File Long-Awaited Antitrust Suit Against Google
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California SUD Treatment Industry Advertising/Marketing Lawsuit
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/dueling-lawsuits-between-malibu-rehab-centers-expose-the-shady-side-of-the-recovery-industry/ I am sharing this...
The Feds Get Creative Prosecuting Kickbacks
In various health care law blogs and posts, lawyers across the country have been writing about the “Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act” (EKRA)...
LegitScript Opens The Spigot & Congress Chimes In on Internet Marketing
One of our favorite reporters in this space, Behavioral Healthcare Executive’s Julie Miller, broke the news that LegitScript has released the first...
Palm Beach Court Requests Clarification on Question of “Criminal Intent” Necessary in Patient Brokering Act
Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Joseph G. Marx issued a somewhat confusing non-final Order this morning in the closely-watched case of State v....
Confusion Over Sober Home Certification Spurs Misinformation Campaign in Florida
Prior to 2016, there was no law in Florida governing the relationship between sober homes and treatment programs. Certification of recovery...
BREAKING NEWS – Google Reinstates Ads for Addiction Treatment Centers, With Pre-certification by LegitScript
Google will start accepting ads for addiction treatment centers again, Reuters reports. The company suspended the ads in September after The Verge...
Reduction of Mental Healthcare Workforce Contrasts with Need
According to ModernHealthcare.com, the U.S. healthcare sector added 22,400 jobs in March, an improvement from February and roughly in line with its...
Why It Took Google So Long to End Shady Rehab Center Ads
Google has been in our news circle (and yours) a lot lately regarding its announcement that it was going to scale back AdWord campaigns (for how...
Google Regulates Fraudulent Addiction Marketing
After months if not years of industry leaders complaining about the gamesmanship in addiction treatment center marketing, and the findings by a...
