A Cannon County man was arrested Monday on a sealed indictment and charged with 6 counts of TennCare Fraud. According to police reports, Cannon County Deputy Sgt. Randy Neal went to Bryant Lane to serve the arrest warrant on Stephen J Bennett. Bennett failed to disclose to his physician that he was seeing other medical professionals within a 30 day period and received prescriptions for the strong painkiller Hydrocodone using TennCare benefits to pay for either the clinical visits or the prescriptions. TennCare fraud involving doctor shopping is a Class E felony carrying a sentence of up to two years per charge in prison. Bond was set at $7500. Bennett is due to answer the charges in Circuit Court on Feburary 10th
