Many of the patients in the other cases were aggressively recruited and kidnapped off the street on tribal land and taken to the Phoenix area ... Court with defrauding AHCCCS, Arizona’s Medicaid ...

In 2023, state officials suspended AHCCCS payments to several providers ... This makes it the 11th largest metropolitan area in the country right behind the Boston and Atlanta areas.

Arizona's Medicaid agency (AHCCCS) was defrauded of up to $2.5 billion through various schemes, primarily targeting Indigenous people seeking addiction treatment. Over 100 individuals and ...

AHCCCS pays for crisis and inpatient behavioral ... Several factors may affect pricing, including age, income, geographic area and the tier of plan that one buys. Some states have their own ...

In one, the state seeks to reclaim money paid erroneously because of outright fraud or abuse by either health-care providers or those covered by AHCCCS. The other category is in the area of cost ...

Arizona restored Medicaid (AHCCCS) to childless adults in 2014 at ... and people living in rural areas, state officials were told. Kicking people off of Medicaid because of the lifetime limit ...