Kickbacks
When healthcare providers pay or receive money in exchange for patient referrals, medical decisions get made for the wrong reasons. Kickbacks are illegal under California and federal law — and they are far more common than most people realize. Your account helps expose them.
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Kickback and illegal referral schemes thrive in silence. Patients who were steered toward a facility for financial reasons — rather than clinical ones — often don't find out until long after the harm is done. When those accounts are collected together, a pattern emerges that regulators cannot overlook.
CareWatch California is actively gathering accounts related to illegal referral practices across California's healthcare system. If you or someone you know experienced any of the following, your support helps build the case:
- Being placed in a facility by a counselor, case manager, or broker who had a financial relationship with that facility
- Pressure to choose a specific provider without a clear clinical explanation
- Discovering that a facility paid for your referral after the fact
- Witnessing referral payments being discussed or exchanged while working at a facility
- Being placed in a sober living home that funneled residents to a specific treatment program for financial gain
By signing below, you are authorizing CareWatch California to contact your state representatives on your behalf and urge them to investigate this issue. You are not filing a complaint — if you want to do that, you can do so on our Report Abuse page.
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