Medicaid Audit: Crisis in Confidentiality and the Patient-Psychiatrist Relationship

Harvey J. Shwed, M.D., Seymour F. Kuvin, M.D., and Ravi K. Baliga, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 136, Number 4A

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.447

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The authors describe their experience with a routine Medicaid audit and discuss the damage such a procedure can do to the trust between psychiatrists and patients, confidentiality, doctors’ reputations, transference reactions, and patients’ own emotional states. The authors point out that these crucial issues have broad implications because of the possibility of passage of national health insurance legislation.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 136 • Number 4A • April 1979

Pages: 447 - 450

PubMed: 371420

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Received: 4 October 1977

Accepted: 9 January 1978

Published in print: April 1979

Published online: 24 April 2020

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Harvey J. Shwed, M.D.

Drs. Shwed and Kuvin are Co-Directors, and Dr. Baliga is on the staff, Psychiatric Institute, Saint Michael’s Medical Center, 268 High St., Newark, N.J. 07102. Drs. Shwed and Kuvin are also Clinical Assistant Professors, and Dr. Baliga is Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School of the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Send reprint requests to Dr. Shwed.

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Seymour F. Kuvin, M.D.

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Ravi K. Baliga, M.D.

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Medicaid Audit: Crisis in Confidentiality and the Patient-Psychiatrist Relationship

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