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Imagine this: you’ve provided a service to a person that was requested, approved and paid for. Years later, without warning, the person who hired you comes back to you and says that although they approved the work you did years ago, they should not have had you do the work and now they want their money back.
You would be outraged, right?
This is exactly what is happening right now to addiction health care providers across New York.
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Every day, addiction health care professionals are doing critical work, operating programs that offer life-saving treatment to people who are in desperate need of care. These professionals, like other health care professionals, must pay their staff, pay their bills to keep the lights on, and pay for the costs associated with providing care to people who are dangerously ill.
And like........