Lawmakers fail to address sober living home scandal
What several state officials have called one of the biggest scandals in Arizona’s history went unaddressed by the Legislature this year.
Senator pushes for regulation of sober living homes
Cheers and applause echoed through the Senate on Tuesday when Sen. Theresa Hatathlie, D-Tuba City, saw her first bill pass out of the chamber.
Man indicted on conspiracy charge in alleged scheme involving Medicaid-funded facility
A man accused of obtaining money in exchange for bringing people to an Arizona Medicaid-funded health facility has been indicted in Phoenix, the state's top prosecutor said Thursday.
Hundreds of tribal members, mostly Navajo, living on Phoenix streets amid fake sober home crackdown
Navajo law enforcement teams made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes who are living on the streets in the metro Phoenix area, after the state cracked down on Medicaid fraud and suspended unlicensed sober living homes, Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch said Monday.
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.
Hundreds of sober living homes in Prescott face new rules
Rep. Noel Campbell's House Bill 2107 in the 2016 legislative session aimed to raise the standard of care at sober living homes in Prescott. This time, it was a clean sweep through the Legislature.
Arizona city stews over regulating sober living homes
With a growing segment of the country beginning to view addiction as a disease that needs treatment, a northern Arizona city is mulling over a new law that allows it to register and regulate a cottage industry of sober living homes thriving among its residential neighborhoods.
Arizona House panel OKs bill to regulate sober living homes
A House committee passed a bill Monday to regulate sober living homes after hearing testimony from Prescott residents about problems the homes are creating in their communities.