Arizona Fraud Unit Stops Medical ID Theft Ring

The Arizona Department of Insurance has announced that Gevorg Melkonyan and Elina Arutyunova have been criminally charged for their role in allegedly stealing the medical identity of several Arizona patients and then falsely billing insurance companies for medical services never provided. Their conduct created an inaccurate, and potentially harmful, medical history for the patients involved and an administrative headache for the doctors whose names were falsely used.