PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix-area company’s head has been convicted of 39 counts of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft for false billings to Arizona’s Medicaid program for non-emergency medical transports that never occurred.
A federal court jury’s Dec. 9 conviction of Arizona Medical Transportation LLC owner-operator Elseddig Elmarioud Musa follows Nov. 22 sentencings of a Fort Defiance couple in a separate case also involving fraudulent billings to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System for transports never performed.
A 2015 indictment said Musa fraudulently billed AHCCCS over $1.2 million for thousands of transports that never occurred, including more than 300 a day on several occasions such as Sundays when “when most medical and dental facilities are closed.”
Musa faces a March 6 sentencing.
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