This week, Arizona state officials ordered St. Luke's Behavioral Health Center in Phoenix to suspend operations following severe facility deficiencies, including a catastrophic failure of its air conditioning system, which led to dangerously high temperatures, forcing the relocation of approximately 100 psychiatric patients. The Arizona...Arizona News
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has taken action to end a healthcare fraud scheme in Arizona that preyed on elderly patients and defrauded health payers $1.6 billion.
The DOJ announced it had charged 193 people with healthcare fraud in the sweep, all affiliated with companies Apex Mobile Medical LLC, Apex Medical LLC,...Arizona News
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has vowed to improve nursing home quality and transparency throughout the state. Her biggest target is the Ensign Group, one of the largest publicly traded nursing home chains in the country, which owns nearly a third of Arizona nursing home beds.
A study on the Ensign Group found that revenues for...
The coalition supporting a ballot measure that could add abortion rights to Arizona's constitution has announced that it has collected the requisite number of voter signatures three months ahead of the deadline. Florida abortion supporters have done the same, but are now fighting a new six-week abortion ban that's set to go into effect...
As the state crackdown on fraudulent Medicaid-funded substance abuse recovery homes across Arizona continues, stories of patients impacted by the programs are emerging.
The facilities would operate under generic names like "Healing Fountain," "Happy Valley," or "Angelic Behavioral Health," and registered with the state as counseling...Arizona News
The Arizona Attorney General's Office is continuing its massive investigation into fraudulent substance abuse recovery homes that target Native Americans.
Last week, the AG's office announced that the Better You Wellness Center LLC's two owners and its biller were indicted on charges of fraudulently billing the Arizona Health Care...Arizona News
More details are emerging about the hundreds of fraudulent recovery centers in Arizona that preyed on Indigenous Americans in exchange for Medicaid reimbursements.
The loophole in question is one that allows any Native American in the U.S. to seek substance abuse recovery in Arizona through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment...Arizona News
Two Arizona lawmakers filed an appeal to intervene in a lawsuit from 2021 that challenges a law that bans elective abortions resulting from the discovery of fetal genetic anomaly and includes a revised definition of fetal personhood.
In January, a judge refused to maintain an injunction against the law following the overturn of Roe v....
