The Sober Truth: Inside Arizona's Medicaid Scandal | Investigative Documentary
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- In this FOX 10 Special report, The Sober Truth, FOX 10 Investigator Justin Lum takes a deep dive into the sober living crisis plaguing the state. Vulnerable people are dying, going missing, and are being taken advantage of by fraudulent providers profiting off the state.
00:00 The Sober Truth
01:35 Lost in a Crisis
09:39 Sober Living Pipeline
13:39 Facing the Fallout
20:57 Solutions in Surprise
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Thank you Justin for investigating and sharing.
Same thing going on in Florida. It needs to stop.
I hope other states start following suit. There is a lot of fraud and abuse in addiction recovery. My former employer overbills insurance for services and medications never rendered. They were evicted from OKC and transported tribe members to Arkansas.
Fantastic job Justin Lum! I worked in the substance use disorder field for over a decade and I walked away in 2021 as more government money was getting tossed at the problem because I foresaw issues like this coming. Not to mention the rising death rates. Sad. Keep up the good work Justin!
The best report on this scheme I’ve watched so far
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies should pursue the scammers wherever they are and bring them to justice.
They are.
Their probably involved 😢
Unfortunately, the FBI would unlikely be involved with this but many governing bodies can help, and more than likely will be involved currently.
Since people were being flown in from different states, it would fall under the purview of the FBI and might fall under RICO statutes.
@@allisonoconnor8055nobody seems to want to accept that but its quite possible all the agencies are complicit
The same thing is happening to my husband’s community in North Dakota - Spirit Lake Nation - they are being recruited for treatment services, brought to Los Angeles CA, and then end up missing or dead!! This has to stop.
How does this have such little views how is this not major news?
It's 3 months later and only 11000 views.
News sites lack the personality and stylized presentation of popular CZcamsrs. Also, it’s buried in a local branch of a major news organization, a news organization that most people don’t find trustworthy to begin with due to inflammatory rhetoric surrounding national politics.
It has been very frustrating watching this happen. Millionaires made off of people and their vulnerability. Who just wanted to get sober. I really want them held accountable, the fraudsters. All of them. People died, are displaced, were abused, assaulted, and are now homeless, missing and without any means of doing anything.
Me n my kids went to many homes some where we were kept inside hotels and a house doing nothing. I thought we were going to receive treatment as a family but my kids were kept at home everyday doing nothing. Wish these ppl are held accountable. I lost my daughter to depression after we were discharged last year on March 11,2023. Today is a year I lost her. Only 11 days after we came home she lost her life to depression. I tried getting help we needed. I'm hurt daily. I wish they would be held accountable for what happened to my baby as well. But how?
This happened a decade ago in Prescott too
Thank you. Watching from Alaska.
I have been tracking this for a long time.
I am so glad this is being brought to forefront and cracking down on these "rehabs" scams. Thank you, Justin Lum.
Thank you for this information. It’s very important to speak out and share with the community and news organizations.
Keep making😮 this public so they are forced to do more investigating!
I would like to see a more in depth look at AHCCCs role in this. As an example, there is NO WAY a person should have been allowed to enroll in AIHP without a COB (certificate of tribal blood). There are amazing legitimate places out there trying to help people and struggling because of this scandal.
This group of Angels helping the vulnerable is awesome. Blessings to you all. Amen 🙏🏻
Thank you Jeri. I remember you from The Vogue.
This is some shady crazy greedy people who own these awful facilities
This happening all over the country! In L.A. these facilities are sending recruiters all the way to North Dakota tribal communities and flying Natives out to LA sober living and when their insurance expires they are kicked to the street. Families are told that they left willingly to abuse drugs and there's nothing they can do to "make" them stay. Just recently a friend of mine's brother was recruited to LA and died in their care on 6/13. The family wasn't informed until 6/21 that he had passed away. These places are beyond shady.
scammers are doing the same thing here where i live in denver but with fentanyl addicts who are on the street in pueblo and colorado springs (1-2 hrs away from Denver on a good day). they go around on the streets and offer to pay these addicts minimum $100 a day to be driven hours away and back home each day, 6 days a week, to go to the methadone clinics. they haul as many patients as they can in these brand new HUGE SUVs w/ temp tags and charge Medicaid for the several hrs a day trips on a PER PERSON basis. Drivers were hearing about making somewhere around $10,000 a day doing this BS. this is NOT how Medicaid dollars should be spent, or STOLEN from the poor people who absolutely need it. these people have no soul. absolutely disgusting
Every time money becomes available there's someone setting up a way to get it. Look at the number of scandals from mobility scooters to knee braces. I noticed billing from a pharmacy I used one time wasn't correct, Medicare wasn't interested in my information. When a provider I was seeing charged repeatedly for procedures not done, same thing. I've changed Drs but the fraud continues I'm fairly sure.
I can just say, I agree. DT’s are miserable.😢
This awful life style has been going on since the beginning of time. People have choices. 😮
The city of Surprise is doing something by going after unlicensed homes, however what happens to the people who were living there? It's one thing to want to cut down crime and drug usage in your neighborhood, but it's another to disregard human life so callously that the answer is just to evict those who need intensive sobriety treatment without connecting them to any reputable services and shelter.
The recruiter was making $100 per each person he recruited, yet they were making $180K per each person per year🧐
The OIG should also investigate hospitals and other health care institutions. They are charging too much for unnecessary services.
Unfortunately that’s where you get into politics and criminals of different skin color. They wouldn’t dare address the atrocities occurring within the medical industry.
Investigate the health insurance industry entirely
Where do you report places like these?
I have to wonder if this is a large contributing factor to the homeless crisis in Phoenix and surrounding areas. People blame the homeless instead of understanding it is a system failure upon system failure upon system failure.
🎯 It has to be.
This is a nationwide issue.
A legal form of human exploitation.
Recruiters/headhunters.
A very ugly evolution of social services.
And people wonder why homeless and migrants will live in a tent before engage with these nasty organizations.
And if the staff are nasty, then the people who own the organization is nasty, no matter how rich nasty made them.
There's a movie about this subject starring Jack Kilmer. It's called Body Brokers.
But why isn't our Navajo Nation president not concerned. SMH
Last year he ordered a state emergency and a humanitarian emergency 💔 nobody really listens and when they do, they go right back to it.
I can't get anyone to help me, teeth filing, abuse, wrongful punishments by government, everyone who should care doesn't and does bad and lies about it
So you hijack this video with your personal stuff
When enrolling in these programs (methadone clinics, sober living) you must be Actively using. This means shoot up marks etc.
it's super fucked up.
I know this from first hand knowledge I was told to use to get into Denver Health Methadone Clinic here in Denver, CO. Pretty wild if ya ask me.
Not every rehab is doing these things. Learn to support and encourage your family member as they are in their addiction. Love them,don't make them feel like they got no help
Are they sure she wasn't offed?
I wonder if the baby was consensual and she said she would talk about what happened 💔 These people deserve justice
Aura involved?
God is REAL God is active
The TRUTH " for US President 2024
He speaks the TRUTH
Okay all of that is horrible but Monica chose to drink on her own and drank herself to death.
Bitter truth.
They should reach out for the natives they are drinking their lives to death. They don't want to be in legitimate facilities because they are controlled
Had Monica been taken to a licensed facility, she might still be alive. What was missing in this story is how they keep people in their care, so that they can continue to bill for services. Monica wanted help, and instead she was taken advantage of.
Unbelievable how you think of another. If you want to see the truth, go speak to the tribal people. They have been stolen from, used and abused, since the arrival of the Whites on OUR land.
@@keyserholiday true
And you're okay with our tax dollars helping that happen? WTF 😳