Attorney General Mayes Announces Conviction and Sentencing of Yuma Physician in $36.5 Million Medicaid Fraud Case
PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today the conviction of Irfan Fazil, M.D., on four felony counts for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme against the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS).
Fazil was convicted on September 4, 2026, of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices (class 2 felony), Illegal Control of an Enterprise (class 3 felony), Theft (class 2 felony), and Illegal Procurement of a Dangerous Drug (class 3 felony) after entering a guilty plea. A State Grand Jury had indicted him on six felony counts on June 8, 2026. Fazil was sentenced in Yuma County Superior Court on October 2, 2026.
"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," said Attorney General Mayes. "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. My office will continue to aggressively prosecute fraud in government programs to protect tax dollars."
As part of his plea deal entered by the court, Fazil will serve 7.5 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections followed by 7.0 years of probation. He will forfeit all of his assets — including real estate, medical facilities, vehicles, multiple aircraft, jewelry, luxury handbags, U.S. currency, cryptocurrency, and gold bars — surrender his medical license and DEA registration, and pay $36,542,901.45 in restitution to AHCCCS.
Between July 1 and December 31, 2025, Fazil used three business entities — Bio Family Clinic, Inc., Yuma Mobile X-Ray, and Yuma Kidney & Dialysis — to bill AHCCCS for tens of thousands of radiology services, including X-rays, ECGs, CT scans, medical treatments, and ultrasounds. His entities collected $36.5 million in AHCCCS payments in that six-month period, compared to $4.7 million over the preceding two and a half years — a 671% increase in paid claims.
Investigators focused on the 27 patients with the highest billing volumes. In one case, a single patient's account was billed for more than 1,700 X-rays in six months — a physically impossible number that would have caused serious harm from radiation exposure — along with hundreds of other radiology services.
Fazil also wrote his wife, Nadia Hanif, multiple prescriptions for drugs like Clonazepam while she was outside the United States, then picked up the prescriptions himself from the pharmacy.
The case was investigated by Special Agents of the Arizona Attorney General's Office Special Investigations Section. Fazil was indicted by the Attorney General's Office in a major medicaid fraud crackdown in June 2026.
The Attorney General's Office thanks its law enforcement partners from the DEA, FAA, Yuma Police Department. Yuma County Sheriff’s Office, AHCCCS OIG, HHS OIG for their assistance on this investigation.
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