The Brief

PHOENIX - It’s been almost two years since the state initiated a massive crackdown on Medicaid fraud that cost taxpayers nearly $3 billion. The sober living crisis grew as countless people fighting addiction became displaced.

What we know:

On Nov. 12, lawmakers held a third oversight hearing to question the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state’s Medicaid agency. This time, the new director of the state’s Medicaid agency was in attendance to speak to lawmakers.

Virginia Rountree was recently chosen by Gov. Katie Hobbs to take over for Carmen Heredia.

Republican state Sen. Carine Werner continued to call out concerns made by struggling behavioral health providers who feel they have been impacted by the crackdown and retaliated against for the massi

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