Two Mesa residents, Eric Riley and Britney Gooch, have been sentenced for defrauding the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona’s Medicaid agency.
The 39-year-old Riley was sentenced on Feb. 6, 2026, to 24 months of imprisonment.
The 38-year-old Gooch was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2026, to 12 months and one day of imprisonment.
Riley and Gooch were also ordered to pay $3.3 million in restitution to AHCCCS. Both defendants previously pleaded guilty to Healthcare Fraud.
Riley and Gooch defrauded AHCCCS through their company, New Horizons Behavioral Health, a behavioral health clinic in Mesa. Through New Horizons, they exploited AHCCCS’s American Indian Health Program (AIHP) between 2020 and 2022 by falsely billing for services that were not provided to AIHP patients. As a result of the fraudulent billing submissions, Riley and Gooch obtained approximately $3.3 million in illegitimate proceeds from AHCCCS.
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