Arizona's Medicaid program is called the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS (pronounced "access"). It is a government health insurance program primarily for low-income people that ...

Ms. Mayes is seeking a declaration that the company violated the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits companies from selling a new drug at artificially inflated prices, and maximum statutory ...

The providers Crump is representing say they were unfairly targeted by AHCCCS, Arizona's Medicaid system, when it suspended payments to these and other facilities in 2023. The providers were ...

The state’s Medicaid agency, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, acknowledged the fraud cost taxpayers as much as $2.5 billion. But it has not accounted publicly for the number of ...

(AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File) PHOENIX (CN) — Two dozen behavioral health care facilities, providers and clinicians sued Arizona and the state’s Medicaid agency Tuesday ... in your browser to complete ...

Patients continued to die even after Arizona officials in May 2023 announced a sweeping investigation of hundreds of facilities. By then, the fraud was so widespread that officials spent the next year ...

Attorney Ben Crump filed a lawsuit against Arizona, alleging racial bias in a state-wide Medicaid fraud scandal. The claim says black and brown providers were wrongfully suspended and received ...

The state’s Medicaid agency, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, acknowledged the fraud cost taxpayers as much as $2.5 billion. But it has not accounted publicly for the number of ...

State Medicaid programs across the country reported ... A spokesperson for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) told The Hill the program “is currently locked out of the ...

Jan 28, 2025 Jan 28, 2025 Updated Jan 28, 2025 Proposed changes in Congress to Medicaid laws, if implemented, would cost the state nearly half a billion dollars a year in lost federal grants ...