The owner of a home healthcare company on Tuesday admitted defrauding the Missouri Medicaid Program and the US Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $209,000. Natavia Boyd-Wells, 41, pleaded guilty in US District Court in St. Louis to one count of wire fraud. She admitted that while owner of Touch of the Heart Home Health Care LLC, she submitted hundreds of fraudulent reimbursement claims to the Missouri Medicaid Program and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Care Network. Boyd-Wells admitted submitting claims for services on dates when the veteran patients were in the hospital and could not possibly have received home healthcare services. She also submitted claims knowing both that the services were not provided and that she did not have any necessary documentation of the services. From about June 2020 through November 2024, Boyd-Well’s fraud cost Missouri Medicaid at least $109,751 and the VA at least $100,563.