What is the consequence if the only issue of non-compliance is a patients failure to pay for treatment services?
Standing alone, failure to pay for treatment is NOT non-compliance. Generally speaking, the financial relationship between a treatment provider and the patient is considered an isolated issue between them. If a patient fails to meet the conditions of their financial contract, there are many remedies available to the treatment provider, including collection. The court is not a collection service, and the leverage of the court should not be used to force patients to meet their financial contract. On the other hand, if the patient’s court order to treatment requires him/her to pay for the cost of treatment, a failure to pay may be reported to the court on that basis, but not as a treatment issue. Further, if meeting financial obligations is an element of the patients treatment plan, and is being regularly case-managed as a clinical element of the patients therapeutic program, the failure to pay could then be seen as non-compliance with the treatment plan. In that event, the provider shoul
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