Investigators with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) joined forces with local and federal law enforcement agencies to take down a ring of drug dealers in San Diego in an investigation dubbed “Operation Purple Haze.” “Operation Purple Haze” targeted a group of 19 to 24-year-olds suspected of forging and filling prescriptions that were […]
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DHCS Investigators At Work: Suspected Fraud At Drug Treatment Centers
When the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) received complaints about abuse and fraud in the Drug Medi-Cal (DMC) program, our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members in DHCS’s Audits & Investigations Division went to work. Their investigations uncovered suspected fraud and as a result, the state suspended Medi-Cal payments to 16 alcohol […]
