7 Arizona doctors lose Medicaid contracts

AHCCCS dismissals come amid prescription probe
by Ken Alltucker - Apr. 10, 2012 06:37 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com

The state's Medicaid program said it has terminated the contracts of seven doctors who were top prescribers of powerful pain pills and mental-health prescription drugs.

Their dismissals were made public as the result of an ongoing probe by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, of drug-prescribing patterns in Medicaid programs across the country. Medicaid programs, which provide health care to the nation's poor, reimburse doctors and practitioners. Grassley's probe centers on health-care professionals who prescribe large amounts of pain pills and psychiatric drugs.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2012/04/10/20120410arizona-doctors-lose-medicaid-contracts.html

This sort of thing is why kidnapped kids are on so much dope and why the big bucks from Medicade and Social Security needs to be disconnected.