![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/psychiatrist-locks-patients-in-hospital-units-for-weeks-and-pretends-to-visit-in-scam/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Psychiatrist-fraud.jpg&description=Dr Brian Hyatt is accused of holding at least 26 victims in his unit at Northwest Medical Centre and only attended "a few minutes each day and had no contact with patients" A psychiatrist is accused of locking patients in hospital units for several days and sometimes weeks and pretending to visit them as part of an $800,000 scam, a lawsuit has claimed. Dr Brian Hyatt, 50, from Arkansas, is accused of holding at least 26 victims in his unit at Northwest Medical Centre - with one former patient claiming they were grabbed and held for five days against their will. Under Arkansas law stating mental health patients can be held against their will for 72 hours if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others. But in order to keep patients longer, a medical provider must file a court petition which has the judge's consent. However, in at least two cases, a patient was only released from Dr Hyatt's care after a sheriff's duty showed up with a court order. The Arkansas Attorney General's office claims Dr Hyatt ran an insurance scam to treat patients he rarely visited and then charged the "highest severity code on every patient" in order to take home hundreds of thousands of dollars. Northwest Medical Centre also could not provide sufficient documentation that justified the hospitalisation of 246 patients. Aaron Cash, a lawyer representing several of Dr Hyatt's former patients, said: "I think that they were running a scheme to hold people as long as possible, to bill their insurance as long as possible before kicking them out the door, and then filling the bed with someone else." Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said under the doctor's leadership, the number of beds expanded from 25 to 75 along with claims to Medicaid and Medicare, which made him $1,3367 per day. Investigators accused him of submitting claims to agencies for reimbursement. He also said he conducted daily face-to face evaluations with patients at his hospital. But in April 2022, a former staff member to){kind=link}
Dr Brian Hyatt is accused of holding at least 26 victims in his unit at Northwest Medical Centre and only attended “a few minutes each day and had no contact with patients”
A psychiatrist is accused of locking patients in hospital units for several days and sometimes weeks and pretending to visit them as part of an $800,000 scam, a lawsuit has claimed.
Dr Brian Hyatt, 50, from Arkansas, is accused of holding at least 26 victims in his unit at Northwest Medical Centre – with one former patient claiming they were grabbed and held for five days against their will.
Under Arkansas law stating mental health patients can be held against their will for 72 hours if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
But in order to keep patients longer, a medical provider must file a court petition which has the judge’s consent.