2025年1月27日 · Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response. Many of the deaths in sober living homes reviewed by AZCIR and ProPublica happened as officials — in at least five instances across Republican and Democratic administrations — failed to act on evidence that rampant fraud was imperiling Native Americans whose care was paid for by the ...

Brandon Quester is the founder, executive director and editor of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. In a short time and with limited resources, he built AZCIR into an award-winning newsroom, becoming a regional hub for original and collaborative accountability journalism that is best known for its deep reporting on important public policy issues in Arizona and the Southwest.

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Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response. Many of the deaths in sober living homes reviewed by AZCIR and ProPublica happened as officials — in at least five instances across Republican and Democratic administrations — failed to act on evidence that rampant fraud was imperiling Native Americans whose care was paid for by the ...

2024年3月14日 · In the 10 months since Arizona officials announced an investigation into massive Medicaid billing fraud, they’ve maintained the abuse was mostly limited to a small share of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System: behavioral health providers that exploited the agency’s fee-for-service plans.

Lack of oversight, coordination hinder efforts to reform Arizona’s rise in maternal mortality. Despite a flurry of recommendations from maternal health advocates and policymakers, a lack of strategic oversight and coordination—exacerbated by budget and staffing constraints—has hindered comprehensive reforms aimed at combating Arizona’s maternal mortality crisis.

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2024年4月23日 · To understand the growth of active farmland and groundwater declines in the Douglas basin, AZCIR analyzed data from local and state agencies, including the Arizona Department of Water Resources, as well as satellite data compiled by federal agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) The analysis used satellite raster data, or data with an ...

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2025年1月13日 · Carmela Guaglianone is a fact-checker for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, working in partnership with Gigafact. She recently earned a master's degree in global journalism from New York University, where she focused on data journalism and longform storytelling. Originally from Tempe, she holds a bachelor's degree in linguistics and international comparative studies from Duke ...