Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement announcing two convictions and an arrest made recently by his office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. On November 12, Cassidy Baldridge, 33, was found guilty of Medicaid fraud, a Class A misdemeanor. She was sentenced to one year of jail (suspended) and ordered to pay $1,211.61 in restitution, a $100 fine, and court costs. Baldridge billed Medicaid, falsely claiming to have provided services to a beneficiary while the beneficiary was in a hospital. On November 12, Shannon Mensie, 56, was found guilty of Medicaid fraud, a Class A misdemeanor. She was sentenced to 30 days of jail (suspended) and ordered to pay $393.75 in restitution, a $500 fine, and court costs. While working for a personal care agency, Mensie falsely claimed to have provided services to a Medicaid beneficiary in Beebe while working for Amazon in North Little Rock.
On November 13, Jacqueline Small, 36, was arrested and charged with Medicaid fraud, a Class B felony. While employed as a caregiver for a local agency, Small submitted claims for in-home personal care services that were allegedly not provided as documented. Electronic visit verification records indicate that Small was not at or near beneficiary residences during the times she reported delivering care. As a result, Medicaid was improperly billed $11,576.32.