Medicaid Fraud

In Delaware, the owner/operator of a non-emergency medical transportation company was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution for health care fraud. Investigation revealed that the Medicaid program was billed for transportation to a drug treatment facility that never occurred.

Other Health Care Professionals

In Pennsylvania, a licensed nurse was sentenced to four months imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,000 in fines and assessments for her guilty plea to health care fraud. A convicted felon, the woman concealed her criminal past from various employers. The woman then utilized her position as a nurse to steal from and defraud patients placed in her care.

Child Support Enforcement

In Oregon, a man was sentenced to 30 days home detention, three years probation and ordered to pay $69,000 in restitution for failure to pay child support for his three children currently in foster care. In a joint Social Security Administration investigation, it was revealed that the man used his son’s identity to commit fraud and hide assets.