Indigenous people from multiple states have filed a class action lawsuit against Arizona over its failure to act against massive Medicaid fraud they say killed and injured individuals who were trying to get sober.
Lawyers from the BrewerWood law firm in Phoenix and Albuquerque-based attorney Brook Laskey filed the 232-page lawsuit on Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court. The lawyers estimate approximately 7,000 people were victimized by fraudulent schemes that disproportionately targeted Indigenous people who were trying to get sober from substance use disorder and were enrolled in an Arizona Medicaid program called the American Indian Health Program.
Arizona’s Medicaid agency is called the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS…