Queen Creek, Arizona — A Yuma-area physician has been sentenced to prison and ordered to forfeit tens of millions of dollars in personal assets following his conviction on multiple felony charges tied to a systemic billing scheme against Arizona’s Medicaid system. State prosecutors announced Friday that Dr. Irfan Fazil received a 7.5-year term behind bars with the state corrections department, to be followed by seven years of supervised probation, after pleading guilty before the Yuma County Superior Court.
Under the judgment, Fazil must provide $36,542,901.45 in court-ordered restitution to AHCCCS, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, while relinquishing his medical license and federal drug registration. Investigators uncovered that three healthcare ventures controlled by Fazil—Bio Family Clinic, Yuma Mobile X-Ray, and Yuma Kidney & Dialysis—collected $36.5 million during a single six-month window in 2025, representing a 671 percent surge over prior billing periods. Court records showed the clinics submitted claims for numerous unperformed radiology procedures, including more than 1,700 diagnostic X-rays charged to the account of a single patient.
> "Dr. Fazil abused his position as a physician to steal more than $36 million from a taxpayer funded program that exists to provide health care to Arizona's most vulnerable residents," Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement detailing the sentencing. "He billed for thousands of X-rays and other medical treatments that could not possibly have been performed and treated AHCCCS as his personal bank account."
The sentence resolves felony counts including fraudulent schemes, illegal enterprise control, theft, and drug procurement, the latter stemming from unlawful prescriptions written for controlled substances while the recipient was outside the country. The enforcement action resulted from an inquiry led by the Attorney General’s Special Investigations Section in coordination with federal oversight agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
