PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes said Tuesday the state has been the victim of massive fraud in its health care program and blamed their Republican predecessors for ignoring it.
The scheme involves “sober living homes” signing up Native Americans, often on the street, with the promise of treatment. But when they got there, there was no treatment and, according to Hobbs, some had to “escape out of windows and jump over fences in the middle of the night just to access a phone to reach the outside world.”
Yet the governor said the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid program, was billed for the “services.’”
