Arizona couple sentenced in AHCCCS fraud scheme at East Valley clinic

A judge sentenced a New River couple to years in prison after they were convicted of stealing $12 million from the state’s Medicaid program and spending it on property and luxury vehicles.

Thvoughn Lynden Curry, 34, was sentenced to 88 months in federal prison, and Alexis Daneen Curry, 34, was sentenced to 70 months, according to the Arizona district of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. They also were ordered to pay about $12 million in restitution to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System and will be under three years of probation after their release.

The couple defrauded AHCCCS through 1 Family Clinic, LLC, “their purported outpatient behavioral health clinic in Mesa,” the Arizona district of the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated in a release. They were convicted at trial of three counts of healthcare fraud, eight counts of transactional money laundering and one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.