There is a Mental Health and Substance Addiction Crises in New Mexico. And it is not due to the mentally ill or drug abusers. It is directly related to New Mexico’s Department of Human Services. They have stopped all Medicaid fundin to all 15 Non Profit, Core Service Agencies. These are the Mental Health and Drug Addiction agencies that provide services to the uninsured and low income. They claim fraud, yet provide no evidence to back that up. They did bring in an outside Audit company from Boston whose findings suggest some misuse of funds and even using the word fraud for why they stopped the funding. Funny how the dollar amount 36,000,000.00 is exactly the same amount as the Boston Company accused North Carolina of misusing in their audit. Most of the 15 agencies accused have passed numerous audits done by Optim Health who currently oversees these agencies. Yet Optim Health was not in the audit. Maybe Optim Health needs retraining on its auditing practices. Why does the New Mexico Department of Health have companies from Arizona ready to take over these 15 agencies? Do you plan on giving over 1,000 jobs to Arizona? What about New Mexico? We have enough unemployed as it is. Is our State Government not able to fix its own problems? Where is Senator Michael S. Sanchez? Why doesn’t he return the many calls made to his office? Doesn’t he see what’s going on? Our Non-Profit Core Service Agencies are closing due to lack of funding and the only answer we have is Arizona? Where is Governor Martinez? Where is the Media? Where is the Justice system? And where am I and over 30,000 other mental health and drug addiction (humans) going to get our care? Lynne M. Getchell 07/11/2013
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:39:07 +0000
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