Operators of two Fort Defiance medical transportation companies have been sentenced to prison for health-care fraud after collecting more than $3 million from a government health program for thousands of trips that never occurred, federal prosecutors said.Sylvia Begay, 50, who operated Hozho Nahasdlii Health Care at Home, was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court to two years and four months in federal prison. She will also be subject to three years of supervised release and must pay more than $2.1 million in restitution.
Source: Arizona Medicaid contractors sentenced for health-care fraud