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Hyatt, 7 Others Federally Indicted for Alleged Patient Abuse at Northwest Medical Center
Brian Hyatt and seven others allegedly held patients against their will to bill for unnecessary services from 2018 to 2022, the DOJ said.
- Federal prosecutors indicted former Arkansas State Medical Board chairman Brian Hyatt and seven others on Monday for kidnapping and fraud at the Northwest Medical Center Behavioral Health Unit in Springdale.
- The group allegedly conspired from 2018 through 2022 to hold patients against their will, billing Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary services.
- Defendants allegedly administered sedatives like Haldol, Ativan, and Thorazine without medical necessity, while staff failed to document "actual conditions in medical records."
- U.S. Marshals booked Hyatt into the Washington County Detention Center on March 28; if convicted, conspirators face life in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.
- Hyatt faces over 200 outstanding lawsuits and separate Medicaid fraud charges in Pulaski County, with a May 4 hearing scheduled to address fitness-to-proceed concerns.
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Ex-Arkansas Medical Board Chair Indicted for Alleged Drugging, Abduction of Patients
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