Attorney Benjamin Crump filed a lawsuit claiming state agencies unjustly targeted sober living providers with fraud accusations, denied payments and stopped them from providing services to Native Americans.

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Providers 'wrongly targeted' by AHCCCS in sober living scandal filing lawsuit

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			Unrecognized Deaths: At least 40 Native residents of Phoenix-area sober living homes and treatment facilities died betwe...

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Dozens die in Arizona sober living homes as state officials flub Medicaid fraud response

Health providers who say they were negatively affected by actions taken by the state to prevent fraud in Arizona's Medicaid system are taking legal action.

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Attorney files sober living lawsuit in AZ

Dozens of sober living providers claim they were improperly targeted and forced to close their doors nearly two years after the state sounded the alarm on a $2 billion sober living crisis.

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Dozens of sober living providers claim they were racially targeted in new lawsuit

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.

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Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response

Anders Hustito sits at his house in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. His son, 43-year-old Jeffrey Hustito, died at a sober living home in Glendale, Arizona, in 2022. Photo by Adriana Zehbrauskas, special to ProPublicaAt least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions.	
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Dozens of people died in AZ sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response

Providers say they were unfairly punished when the state began suspending AHCCCS payments. 
PHOENIX — Health providers who say they were negatively affected by actions taken by the state to prevent fraud in Arizona’s Medicaid system are taking legal action, claiming they were “wrongly targeted.” Attorney Ben Crump announced Tuesday he was filing a lawsuit on behalf of several providers in Arizona whose business operations were hindered by the su…

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(ProPublica) – At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions. The deaths, almost all from drug and alcohol use, span from the spring of 2022 to the summer of 2024, according to a review of records from the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner. Over hal…

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