Reader View: Martinez administration isn’t following law (SF New Mex)

On June 29, The Santa Fe New Mexican broke a story detailing how the Human Services Department has “subsidized” Arizona behavioral health providers welcomed into the state last summer by the Martinez administration.

According to reporter Patrick Malone’s article, Human Services paid the expenses of at least one Arizona provider months before completion of an audit that we now know was used as a pretext to replace local businesses with those from Arizona. In case it’s not already clear, these payments to the Arizona companies were not for services provided to New Mexico’s behavioral health consumers, they were for overhead and startup expenses. According to the article, Huiman Services continued to pay operational expenses for the Arizona companies through the end of 2013.

Read more here: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/reader-view-martinez-administration-isn-t-following-law/article_bd8052c5-ccdc-5bb2-9c81-7d263566592b.html