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Hundreds of Native Americans have been recruited to addiction treatment centers in Phoenix from states as far away as Montana in a widespread billing scheme that mostly targeted Medicaid’s American Indian Health Program
Autumn Nelson said she was seeking help for alcohol addiction last spring when fellow members of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana suggested a rehabilitation center in Phoenix, far to the south. “All of a sudden I was out in the 108-degree heat in Phoenix, Arizona,” said Nelson.
Hundreds of Native Americans have been recruited to addiction treatment centers in Phoenix in a widespread billing scheme that mostly targeted Medicaid’s American Indian Health Program.
Hundreds of Native Americans have been recruited to addiction treatment centers in Phoenix from states as far away as Montana.