As journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, We began hearing disturbing stories in 2023 from former clients and staff at Addiction Recovery Care, once Kentucky’s largest provider of residential addiction treatment services. Over the past three years, we have spoken with dozens of current and former CRA clients and employees. And in April, we teamed up with ProPublica to publish an article detailing how ARC allegedly used staff to falsely bill Kentucky Medicaid for millions, an allegation the company denies.
For our next article, we want to take a closer look at how the ARC treated people who came to the organization seeking help with their sobriety. We are particularly interested in hearing from clients, as well as staff who have worked closely with clients to provide care.
If you were or are an ARC client or employee, tell us about your experience with the processing provider. Your perspective will help guide our reporting, ensuring we understand the issues of all parties.
You can fill out our brief form or email the Lexington Herald-Leader journalist Alex Acquisto [emailprotected].
We take your privacy seriously and will contact you if we wish to publish any part of your story.
We gather these stories for our reporting, which can take several weeks or months. We may not be able to follow up with everyone, but we will read everything you submit and it will help guide our project.