A class action lawsuit has been filed against Arizona's Medicaid agency and Department of Health, alleging they caused harm to thousands of Native Americans due to the state's sober living crisis. The lawsuit claims fraudulent billing for behavioral health services, reaching an estimated $2.8 billion, created a humanitarian crisis that left individuals suffering injuries, deaths, drug addictions, and homelessness. Lawyers argue the state was aware of the massive fraud since 2019 and failed to address it.
For some time now, we have been following the sober living crisis within Arizona, where an estimated $2.8 billion was stolen from the state’s Medicaid system due to fraudulent billing for behavioral health services never rendered.Now, a complaint has been filed against the Medicaid agency, as well as the state’s Department of Health.We’ve been combing through the 125-page class action complaint, and we have spoken to the lawyers who filed it.
"It’s just a systemic failure within AHCCCS just to see – we’ve heard of so many deaths that really, as far as one standing out that is more tragic than another, really is hard to say because they’re all tragic," said Brewer.Lawyers say the state had egg on its face, and used indictments and arrests to go after bad actors while vulnerable Native Americans developed more addictions, were displaced, or died. Documents say Dr.
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