State agencies "devastated Native American communities" and health care providers who serve them when the providers were unfairly targeted by Arizona's Medicaid system, civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.

Dozens of sober living providers claim they were improperly targeted and forced to close their doors nearly two years after the state sounded the alarm on a $2 billion sober living crisis.

A civil rights attorney said the state agencies named in the lawsuit unfairly targeted health care providers during the Medicaid fraud investigation.

Attorney Ben Crump announced Tuesday he was filing a lawsuit on behalf of several providers in Arizona whose business operations were hindered by the suspensions implemented by th