AZCIR, ProPublica shine light on Arizona Medicaid agency’s response to fraud scheme

AZCIR, ProPublica shine light on Arizona Medicaid agency’s response to fraud scheme

In January, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica published an investigation that found that dozens of Native Americans dealing with addiction in Arizona died as the state struggled to address a massive Medicaid fraud scheme that cost taxpayers roughly $2.5 billion.  Journalists for the two nonprofit news outlets spent more than a year-and-a-half investigating how the state’s Medicaid agency — the Arizona Health Care Cost…