Federal officials seized diamonds and luxury vehicles while investigating a woman accused of fleecing $22 million from Arizona's Medicaid program.
On May 16, 2023, AHCCCS suspended payment to more than 100 providers who are alleged to have defrauded Arizona's Medicaid program millions of dollars.The list of items seized from one woman accused of defrauding Arizona's Medicaid program of more than $22 million includes seven luxury vehicles, more than 30 designer bags and multiple pieces of diamond jewelry.
The scheme relied on phony behavioral health clinics that preyed on patients who needed help and billed Arizona's Medicaid program for services that never were provided,. Several state indictments related to the fraud are at various stages of the judicial process in Maricopa County Superior Court. Asked for any federal cases or case numbers related to the scheme this week, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona provided The Arizona Republic with a copy of the federal indictment against Moore, who pleaded not guilty during her Jan. 19 arraignment. As of Thursday, the case was set to go to trial in September.
When Moore submitted a provider enrollment application for a behavioral health counseling center called"Harmony Family Services" in Mesa in 2019, she listed two people other than herself as owners, even though she had an ownership interest, the indictment says. In a second application, when Moore, in 2020, sought to open"Harmony Family Services II" in Gilbert, she again lied about having an ownership interest, the indictment says.
Between approximately Jan 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2021, Harmony Family Services and Harmony Family Services II submitted approximately 11,850 claims to AHCCCS for reimbursement for services"purportedly provided" by those entities, according to the indictment, and AHCCCS paid them more than $22 million. AHCCCS has since stopped using the billing codes that were being abused for much of the fraud, state officials said this week.
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