A man the Arizona attorney general says tried to profit from selling Medicaid patients has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison.
Arizona’s Medicaid system is called AHCCCS. Investigators have spent years unpeeling layers of a $2.8 billion fraud of the system involving addiction treatment.
Prosecutors say Corey Beckhum kept Medicaid recipients in unsanitary and unlicensed sober living homes.
Prosecutors also say Beckhum negotiated with undercover police to set a price for supplying Medicaid recipients to a behavioral health facility.
Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a prepared statement that fraudsters cannot be allowed to treat people in crisis as paydays.
