More than 200 providers in Arizona have been suspended from the Medicaid program.
In Arizona, the fraud allegedly targeted the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, which administers federal Medicaid funds. The program covers 2.4 million people in Arizona, about 1 in 3 people in the state. More than 2,700 people died of drug overdoses in Arizona in 2022, federal estimates show.
Officials have blamed a ring that allegedly committed similar crimes in Nevada before moving on to Arizona. Taxpayers in Arizona footed a hefty bill. In the 2019 fiscal year, the Medicaid program was billed under a behavioral-health code for $53 million, according to the attorney general’s office. By 2022, that had soared to $668 million. Authorities are still figuring out how much of that billing was legitimate.
“It blows my mind there was no oversight. These are federal dollars,” Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch said. “Our people deserved as much care and concern for how services are being delivered to them.” So many drug users and homeless people in Albuquerque began disappearing from the area that activist Christine Barber posted signs warning of the vans and compiled a list of the missing, now numbering more than 60. “We still have so many people missing,” said Barber, who started a nonprofit called ASUR New Mexico and a street newsletter to warn of what she calls people brokers.
When Crawford’s Medicaid-managed care insurance was running out, she says she was instructed by a clinic staffer to change to the American Indian Health Program. Crawford is not Native American.
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