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Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care

The Lexington Herald-Leader, in collaboration with ProPublica, is seeking firsthand accounts from former and current clients and staff of Addiction Recovery Care (ARC), a former leading residential addiction treatment provider in Kentucky. This initiative follows a previous report detailing allegations that ARC falsely billed Kentucky Medicaid for millions, which the company denies.

Peter.DiCampo@propublica.orgProPublicaFiled 2026-05-20 · 11:00 GMTLean · Center-LeftRead · 2 min
Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care
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The Lexington Herald-Leader, in collaboration with ProPublica, is seeking firsthand accounts from former and current clients and staff of Addiction Recovery Care (ARC), a former leading residential addiction treatment provider in Kentucky. This initiative follows a previous report detailing allegations that ARC falsely billed Kentucky Medicaid for millions, which the company denies. The current reporting aims to investigate how ARC treated individuals seeking sobriety services. The news organizations are collecting these experiences to inform their ongoing coverage and encourage those affected to share their stories via a form or by emailing reporter Alex Acquisto. They emphasize that submitted information will be kept private unless explicit permission is given for publication.

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The Lexington Herald-Leader and ProPublica are seeking to gather more stories from former clients and staff of ARC.

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Addiction Recovery Care denies allegations of fraudulent billing.

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Troubling stories from former clients and staff of Addiction Recovery Care (ARC) began surfacing in 2023.

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ARC allegedly used staff to falsely bill Kentucky Medicaid for millions.

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Dongyan Xu for ProPublica As reporters at the Lexington Herald-Leader, we first started hearing troubling stories in 2023 from former clients and staff of Addiction Recovery Care, once Kentucky’s largest residential addiction treatment service provider. Over the last three years, we have spoken with dozens of former and current ARC clients and staff. And in April, we teamed up with ProPublica to publish a story detailing how ARC allegedly used staff to falsely bill Kentucky-medicaid" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="130707" data-entity-type="organization">Kentucky Medicaid for millions, an allegation the company denies . For our next story, we want to take a closer look at how ARC treated the people who came to the organization seeking help with their sobriety. We are particularly interested in hearing from clients, as well as staff who worked closely with clients to deliver care.  If you were or are an ARC client or employee, tell us about your experience with the treatment provider. Your perspective will help guide our reporting, ensuring we understand the issues from all sides. You can fill out our brief form or email Lexington Herald-Leader reporter Alex Acquisto aacquisto@herald-leader.com .  We take your privacy seriously and will contact you if we wish to publish any part of your story. We’re gathering 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. The post Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care appeared first on ProPublica .
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