A care-coordination grievance escalated to ADHS, AHCCCS, Kepro, and CMS — evidence of how a patient-rights standard goes unenforced across agency seams.
The regulatory gap this exposes
This case frames a care-coordination breakdown against 42 CFR § 482.13 and the escalation path through ADHS, AHCCCS, the Medicare quality-review organization, and CMS — illustrating how a federal patient-rights standard can go unenforced when responsibility sits across agency boundaries.
Editor: expand with the sourced escalation timeline (see case_timeline) and link each agency to its sourced response in the response log.
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