Failure to manage the patient's care in order to maximize individual recovery and quality of life, Failure to advocate and promote a system and climate that is conducive to providing ethical care, Failure to utilize ethical principles to advocate for access and parity of services for mental health problems, psychiatric disorders, and substance use disorder services Total Incurred:
O Greater than $1 million(Monetary amounts represent only the payments made on behalf of the treating nurse practitioner.)
O The patient was a 52-year-old woman who had been admitted to a privately- owned alcohol and drug rehabilitation inpatient facility with diagnoses of long- term depression, fibromyalgia and chronic pain.
O She was treated with pain medication and antidepressants.
O The facility required full payment at the time of admission and asserted that it was capable of caring for and treating her multiple problems and symptoms.
O The insured was a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who was working as an independently contracted (i.e., non-employed) nurse