Who pays if you are committed to an insane asylum?
I know that it doens’t necessarily happen like this in real life, but in the movies you often get somebody having a relative committed to an insane asylum in order to get their hands on money or a business, or something, and I was wondering, who actually pays the asylum fees?
Does medicaid cover being committed?
Family pays if you’re in a nice place…
"The State" pays if you’re in the "not so nice" place…
Family pays if you’re in a nice place…
"The State" pays if you’re in the "not so nice" place…
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if u are put in one of those places you pay for it and if u cant the state does
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First of all, the term insane asylum is no longer used-we now call it psychiatric hospitalization. A human being with a mental illness, whose behavior is out of control, must fit certain criteria to be hospitalized. S/he must be a danger to themselves or others or they must be gravely disabled ( unable to provide for their own food or shelter due to a mental disorder ). This is an acute hospitalization and people are often dischaged in 1-2 weeks.
However, if they do not recover after a long period of hospitalization, they may have to go to a state hospital ( insane asylum?). Hopefully, many will be released once deemed safe to themselves and others.
If one is poor, medical/ medicaid pays for it; if one has private insurance, they pay for it-or part of it-depending on policy.
Mentally ill people have every right to be taken care of as they live in poverty and are ill; this is why we have medical/medicaid.
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Psychiatric RN