3 days ago · Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response. Many of the deaths in sober living homes reviewed by AZCIR and ProPublica happened as officials — in at least five instances across Republican and Democratic administrations — failed to act on evidence that rampant fraud was imperiling Native Americans whose care was paid for by the ...

3 days ago · Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the scheme. At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the ...

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3 days ago · Many of the deaths in sober living homes reviewed by AZCIR and ProPublica happened as officials — in at least five instances across Republican and Democratic administrations — failed to act on evidence that rampant fraud was imperiling Native Americans whose care was paid for by the state’s Medicaid agency.

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