Even though New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has cleared Border Area Mental Health Services of Silver City of Medicaid fraud, the options for the organization's future remain uncertain.

Balderas announced his decision Monday when he said a forensic auditing firm his office hired to investigate the claims had cleared BAMHS and nine other mental health providers of fraud.

GǣHow sad for New Mexicans their government chose to treat the providers as guilty until proven innocent,Gǥ Kathleen Hunt, BAMHS executive director, said in a news release. GǣWe have been a grassroots non-profit mental health organization serving clients for more than 40 years in southwest New Mexico.Gǥ

Hunt noted that if the stateG