PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Georgia man has been ordered to nearly a half-decade in prison after being convicted of scamming Arizona’s Medicaid system, more commonly referred to as AHCCCS or the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Kenneth Terrell Harrison, 45, of College Park, Georgia, was sentenced on Monday to 52 months plus an additional three years of supervised release for the scheme. He was also ordered to pay restitution totaling more than $6.5 million.
Federal prosecutors said Harrison admitted to owning an outpatient behavioral health counseling service called Aurtism, LLC, which was located in Mesa. In 2019, Aurtism applied to AHCCCS but did not disclose his ownership interest because he was worried he would be denied based on his criminal history, the feds said…