Arizona Addiction Treatment Clinic Owner Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Leadership Role in $69M Medicaid Fraud Scheme

The record

Publisher

U.S. Department of Justice

Source

U.S. Department of Justice

Kind

Release

Jurisdiction

United States

Topics

Enforcement

Importance

Notable, the middle of three tiers Kresmion sets by fixed rules from the source's own fields

Published (source time)

2026-09-17 12:00 UTC

First seen on Kresmion

2026-09-17 14:45 UTC, 2 h after publication

The original

Link checked 2026-10-27: available.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. Government work.

The publisher's summary

A Phoenix woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection with her role in fraudulently billing Arizona’s Medicaid agency more than $69 million in less than one year for addiction treatment therapy. Many of the patients the defendant used to fuel her scheme were Native Americans covered by Arizona Medicaid under a specific program that reimbursed at higher rates than other Medicaid programs. In addition to the prison sentence, the defendant was ordered to pay almost $55 million in restitution, and to forfeit almost $9.5 million in fraud proceeds seized from seven bank accounts she controlled and almost $7 million in real estate properties.

The publisher's words, as published.