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 ...
The state’s Medicaid agency, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment ... received suspension notices from AHCCCS that month. In a letter sent the day after Hustito died, officials accused ...
(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, claiming racial discrimination ...
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 ... received suspension notices from AHCCCS that month. In a letter sent the day after Hustito died, officials accused ...
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 ...
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 ...
Possible cuts to the nation's Medicaid program would have an outsized burden on rural Arizonans and the hospitals that care for them, new research shows. Thirty-six percent of working-age Arizona ...