Hannah Bassett
Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
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.
by Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting,
Arizona Cracked Down on Medicaid Fraud That Targeted Native Americans. It Left Patients Without Care.
Arizona suspended scores of behavioral health providers as authorities investigated them for defrauding the American Indian Health Program. The state’s actions left patients homeless and without treatment.
by Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, photography by Adriana Zehbrauskas, special to ProPublica,