Operation Rainbow Bridge, the Navajo Nation's outreach effort to find Native Americans who were victims of behavioral health care fraud, is beginning to wind down its efforts in the Valley. MORE ⬇️
After a month of searching, they located 271 Native Americans who were tricked into coming to the Valley with promises of food, shelter and treatment for behavioral health or substance abuse issues.
It's a bill Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has said could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. When Operation Rainbow Bridge was first announced, the Navajo Nation believed between 5,000 to 7,000 Navajos may have been victims of the fraud. Since the state announced its crackdown last month, Arizona suspended payments to 219 behavioral health care providers who are accused of fraudulently billion AHCCCS dating back to 2019.
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