"Now you drop in a whole new snoop and sniff system and 15 [providers] are crooks?" Freedle said. "Bullshit. You got it wrong.''

Editor's Note: SFR previously reported that the Behavioral Health Expert Panel "recommended against" HSD carving in the delivery of behavioral health care services with physical healthcare services in its revamp of New Mexico's Medicaid program. While the panel reported "minimal support" to the carve in, it ultimately said in its White Paper that no "consensus" emerged as to whether behavioral healthcare services should be carved into physical healthcare services. HSD's submission to the federal government for the redesign called for more transparency in the funding streams for behavioral healthcare services, as the panel requested, and carved the delivery of those services into physical healthcare. Additionally, PCG did not start auditing work in the state in 2012, as SFR previously reported. Email the author at justin@sfreporter.com