Massachusetts AG launches probe of addiction treatment fraud
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office is investigating the brokering of drug users to treatment centers in other states, following reports by STAT and the Boston Globe.
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office is investigating a far-reaching insurance scheme that recruited drug users and sent them to treatment centers in other states to exploit their benefit payments, according to people contacted by the office and others familiar with the matter.
Jillian Fennimore, a spokeswoman for , confirmed the office is conducting a criminal investigation of , which have proliferated amid the national opioid addiction crisis. She would not provide details of the probe, including whether particular entities or individuals were being targeted.
