Author: Riley Donovan

Phoenix, AZ – A legal battle has erupted in Arizona over Medicaid contracts, leaving thousands of elderly and disabled residents facing uncertainty about their healthcare future. An administrative law judge ruled Friday that the state’s Medicaid agency, AHCCCS, had improperly awarded contracts to companies providing long-term care services. The ruling throws a wrench into AHCCCS’s plan to transition some 26,000 individuals enrolled in the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS) to new health plans on October 1. The judge sided with three health plans that appealed the contract awards, agreeing that AHCCCS’s process was “seriously flawed.” “The administrative law judge…