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![]() Extensive Urine Testing Necessary
Michael Cartwright and AAC Treatment Solutions was acquired by Michael Cartwright’s American Addiction Centers, AAC, in mid-2012, which closed Leading Edge early this year. In an interview with Treatment Magazine around mid-year, Cartwright said that he closed Leading Edge largely because New Jersey regulatory authorities had issues with the Florida Model clinical setup of the center, which is a model not commonly used in the state. Sources tell Treatment Magazine that Cartwright’s relationship with Treatment Solutions goes back many years to the era in which he was CEO and founder of Foundations Recovery Network, FRN, and to the time seven or eight years ago when Cartwright sold FRN to Chicago area based private equity interests. Cartwright has promised to contact Treatment Magazine to discuss the urine testing allegations against Leading Edge, but has yet to follow through. Cartwright also said in the earlier interview that he was scouting real estate in New Jersey that might be suitable for use in opening a treatment center following the decision to close Leading Edge. Personnel Interconnections There have been strong personnel interconnections between Avee/Alere, the urine testing company defendant in the $3 Connections on Evidence at Conference These strong interconnections have been on evidence nowhere else more than at Cartwright’s Las Vegas Lifestyles Intervention conference, a gathering at which he has attempted to make lightening strike twice by imitating his success while at FRN with the Moments of Change conference, arguably the most successful addiction treatment industry conference. Lifestyles Intervention 2013 just wrapped up last week with Alere, which acquired Avee in a $120M deal, as the event’s principal sponsor. Alere executives have made claims to Treatment Magazine that Alere is the largest provider of drug testing services to the addiction treatment industry. read our breaking story detailing Horizon Blue Cross NJ’s huge $36M urine testing fraud suit read our story on how centers have been getting large urine test reimbursements for years read our Special Report: Cartwright Rides Again HERE IS THE FULL TEXT OF THE JIM BEVELL EMAIL: I just saw the article about the Horizon lawsuit. I want to go one in America can file a lawsuit all it takes is a few hundred dollars in filing fees. However that does not immediately give credibility to their claims. POST YOUR COMMENTS BELOW… start a debate! Got Addiction News? …TELL US! |