After a slew of public critiques, Montana’s labor department announced it will review the state’s process for monitoring medical providers struggling with addiction and mental health issues.

In a Friday meeting with state lawmakers on the Legislative Audit Committee, labor commissioner Sarah Swanson said she was “very concerned” by the issues raised in a recent legislative report and news articles about the program’s current contractor, Maximus, Inc., including expensive fees, strict work limitations for participants and the January suicide of an enrollee, publicly reported for the first time this week by Montana Free Press.

That reporting found that the death of Billings nurse Amy Young had not been acknowledged in standard reports presented to the members of the medical boards who li

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