Dwightnette Mitchell News Today

A provider who was suspended after Arizona announced a crackdown on Medicaid fraud targeting Native Americans says those in need will be left in the dust as many are displaced, looking for help that often can't be found on the reservations.

Navajo leaders met Wednesday in Phoenix to address a massive scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid system and that preyed on tribal members from as far away as Gallup, New Mexico.Patients were taken to fake sober-living homes in the Phoenix area and, in some cases, allegedly held captive, while scammers billed the state’s Medicaid system, the Arizona Health Care Cost