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The indictment comes after state officials promised a crackdown on massive Medicaid billing fraud, particularly on illegitimate group homes that scammed the state Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent charges through the American Indian Health Program.
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Authorities say a huge Tucson addiction recovery community shuttered this week, leaving more than 200 people homeless as Arizona investigates widespread Medicaid fraud largely affecting Native Americans.
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The legislation, which is backed by Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, protects Native children by expanding on the late-Sen. John McCain’s Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act.
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HB 2494 required all registered voters to provide proof of a physical address, but the lawsuit argued that more than 40,000 homes on Native American reservations across the state don’t have one.
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Many Native American tribes won't get the full suite of detailed demographic data from the 2020 census they had in the previous census.
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A group focused on shedding more light on the troubled legacy of boarding schools where Indigenous children were stripped of their culture and language as part of assimilation efforts released a new interactive map that includes dozens of additional schools in the U.S. and Canada.
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Fake Arizona rehab centers scam Native Americans far from home, officials warn during investigationsHundreds 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.
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The U.S. Interior Department unveiled a new program to bring electricity to more homes in Native American communities as the Biden administration looks to funnel more money toward climate and renewable energy projects.
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Native Americans were found to have the lowest level of hospitalization when diagnosed with alcohol use disorder and suicide ideation despite having the nation’s highest suicide rate.
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A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda.