90 Lawsuits Filed Against Dr. Brian Hyatt and Northwest Medical Center's Behavioral Health Unit, Amplifying the Voices of Those Who Were Falsely Imprisoned and Ignored for Years
“Comparison between the health insurance fraud scheme alleged against Dr. Hyatt and Northwest Medical Center’s BHU and other Medicaid and Medicare fraud schemes around the country, including tips on how to spot, avoid, and report them.” To read more on the article, click here .
"The Daily Mail Online recaps NBC Nightly News’s report that broke the story of fraud and patient abuse in Northwest Medical Center’s BHU for national audiences. To read the whole article, click here. "
"International coverage from The Independent of the alleged fraud scheme, imprisonment, and abuse of patients within Northwest Medical Center – Springdale’s Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit."
"More national coverage of the fraud, false imprisonment, and patient abuse allegations against Dr. Hyatt and Northwest Medical Center – Springdale’s Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit." To watch the video, click here .
“KNWA/FOX 24 obtains surveillance video used to investigate a Rogers doctor for Medicaid fraud. Dr. Brian Hyatt was the medical director of Northwest Medical Center’s behavioral health unit from Jan. 2018 to May 2022. His Medicaid billing privileges have been suspended while he is investigated for Medicaid Fraud. Investigators believe Hyatt was overbilling Medicaid at a time when former patients claimed they hardly ever saw the doctor.” To read more on this article,click here.
“The Drug Enforcement Agency executes a search of a doctor’s office on May 23 in Rogers owned by psychiatrist Dr. Brian Hyatt who is under investigation for Medicaid fraud.” Hyatt continues to also face 15 lawsuits from former patients, in which several are claiming false imprisonment. To read more on this article, click here.
Last year, William Vanwhy checked himself into Northwest’s Behavioral Unit to seek help with his depression and anxiety. After a few days of being at the facility, he found himself fighting to get out. He demanded his release but was denied. Like several other victims, Vanwhy had to petition a circuit court for his own release. “The petition states Vanwhy was being 'unlawfully detained' by Northwest Medical Center-Springdale and Hyatt.” On the day he was granted release, he told deputies that he had asked for three days to be released. To read more on this victim, click here .
“Doctors typically bill one of three "medical codes" each day of a patient's hospital stay: one indicating a patient is stable or improving, one indicating that a patient is responding inadequately, and one indicating a patient is unstable or has "a significant complication."” According to an affidavit against Dr. Brian Hyatt, 99.95% of the hospital care claims for Medicaid patients under his care were billed under the “a significant complication” code, which bills at the highest rate. Billing patients at an inappropriately high rate is a type of Medicaid fraud known as "up coding." To read more on this article, click here .
