Ramsey County will no longer bill people for mobile crisis response services
Ramsey County is ending its controversial policy of billing people who call the crisis hotline in search of life-saving help from the mobile crisis response team. The FOX 9 Investigators previously exposed how the county billed hundreds of people after they called the crisis hotline.
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Ramsey County reviewing its mental health crisis billing policy
Ramsey County is now reviewing its controversial policy of billing people in crisis, after the FOX 9 Investigators exposed the county’s practice of sending bills to vulnerable people who call the crisis hotline for life-saving mental health services.
Ramsey County reviewing crisis billing
Ramsey County is now reviewing its policy of billing people, after the FOX 9 Investigators exposed the county’s practice of sending bills to those who called into their crisis hotline. FOX 9 Investigator Nathan O'Neal has the story.
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Ramsey County is billing people hundreds of times for mobile crisis services
Ramsey County billed people 745 times in the last 18 months, after individuals called the county’s crisis line for life-saving mobile crisis services, according to new data obtained by the FOX 9 Investigators.