New Portion Of Audit Released; Hundreds Of Pages Still Secret
A portion of an audit released Friday by the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office with many details blacked out shed little light on why the state froze Medicaid payments to 15 New Mexico behavioral...
View ArticleNM Attorney General: Health Audit Appears To Have Mistakenly Flagged Claims
The audit the state used to justify suspending Medicaid payments to an Alamogordo health center last year appears to have included mistakenly flagged claims, according to the state Attorney General’s...
View ArticleAG Probe Raises Questions About Health Audit’s Integrity
Last year, the state’s Human Resources Department said an audit had helped find “credible allegations of fraud” against 15 New Mexico health organizations offering services such as drug addiction...
View ArticleNMInDepth: Open Letter To Sens. O'Neill and Ortiz y Pino
Dear Senators Bill O’Neill and Jerry Ortiz y Pino:
View ArticleHealth Provider Says State Refused Evidence Refuting Audit
A state agency citing potential Medicaid fraud refused to consider documents that could have cleared a health care provider of allegations that it had overcharged the government by as much as $4.3...
View ArticleBehavioral Health Audit Firm Didn’t Follow Normal Practice
A Massachusetts firm that audited 15 health organizations in New Mexico last year normally gives companies it’s scrutinizing a chance to respond before issuing official findings.It is a common practice...
View ArticleBalderas Releases 2013 Health Audit, With Redactions
Weeks after taking office, new Attorney General Hector Balderas released on Thursday the remainder of the 2013 audit of 15 New Mexico behavioral health agencies, albeit with some redactions.
View ArticlePayday Lending Industry Gives Big
Storefront lending companies and affiliated associations gave nearly $140,000 to New Mexico public officials and political action committees in 2013 and 2014, according to an analysis of data from the...
View ArticleLawmakers Blocking Loan Cap Got Industry Money
Five of the six senators who opposed legislation to cap what lenders can charge borrowers on certain types of loans took thousands of dollars in campaign money from the industry in 2013 and 2014, state...
View ArticleLawmakers Consider How To Regulate Money In Politics
Guy Bowers imagines his phone ringing off the hook if New Mexico were to return to the days of contributors giving unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns.
View Article“Dark Money” Bill Dies In Santa Fe
Lost in the drama of Saturday was the death of legislation that would have exposed so-called "dark money” groups to more public scrutiny.The cause of death?Late-session disagreements and wariness in...
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