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Mental Health Industry Facts

  • The U.S. loses approximately $100 million (€78.7 million) to healthcare fraud, with a large percentage of this due to fraudulent practices in the mental health industry.

  • One of the largest health care fraud suits in U.S. history was in mental health, yet it is the smallest sector within health care.

  • A study of U.S. Medicaid and Medicare insurance fraud, especially in New York, over a 20-year period, showed psychiatry to have the worst track record of all medical disciplines.

  • Germany reports roughly $1 billion (€787,835) in the healthcare system is defrauded each year.

  • In Australia, health care fraud and patient over-servicing has cost taxpayers up to $330 million (€259 million) a year.

  • A review of acts of violence in U.S. schools since 1998 reveals that 38% of children and teens responsible for these crimes were taking psychiatric drugs. The relationship of psychiatric drugs in the remaining school shootings has not been publicly disclosed or the student’s records are sealed.

  • According to one veteran California health care fraud investigator, one of the simplest ways to detect fraud is to look for excessive prescribing rates among psychiatrists.

  • Today, $2 trillion (€1.57 trillion) is spent worldwide on mental health, $100 billion (€78.7 billion) in the United States, but with no workable methods of helping people, psychiatrists promote an ever-increasing rate of “mental illness” to solicit more government appropriations that are a target for fraud.

  • Despite more than a decade of healthcare fraud investigations and convictions in the United States alone, psychiatrists and psychologists have not reformed the fraudulent practices that are rife within their ranks.

  • Studies show that at least 10% of psychiatrists admit to sexually abusing their patients. A U.S. study reported that 1 out of 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their therapist was a minor, the average age being 7 for girls and 12 for boys. The youngest child was three.

  • Psychiatrists and psychologists have billed insurance companies for “patient consultations” that were actually rape sessions.

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