AHCCCS halts payments to 100 providers as officials allege multi-million-dollar scam targeting Native Americans
The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, better known as AHCCCS, suspended payments to more than 100 care providers suspected of scamming the state out of hundreds of millions of dollars while victimizing thousands of Native Americans, officials said on Tuesday.
Brewer signs hospital price transparency bill
Gov. Jan Brewer today signed a bill designed to increase transparency in cost of common services by hospitals. She had vetoed a similar bill earlier this year.
UofA professor confirmed as Indian Health Services director
The U.S. Senate this week unanimously confirmed Yvette Roubideaux, an assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, to head up the country's Indian health care efforts.