08/18/2025 - Senate Health and Human Services

Committee on Health and Human Services · August 18, 2025

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Call to order and chair's opening

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Chairwoman Warner called the Health and Human Services committee to order, said the hearing's purpose is to examine large-scale behavioral health billing fraud ("sober living" schemes), and framed priorities: protect residents, safeguard public resources and examine oversight gaps. Chair warned the problem could recur unless licensing, monitoring and fiscal safeguards are fixed.

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A state legislative committee examined widespread behavioral-health billing fraud tied to ‘sober living’ schemes, heard presentations from Access (the state Medicaid agency), the Office of Inspector General, the Department of Health Services and the Attorney Generals criminal division, and received testimony from providers about unpaid claims, enforcement overreach and service disruptions.

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