Woman Charged After Using Nursing Home Resident’s Bank Account for Rent
A 30-year-old Indiana woman, Andriana Marie Bautista, has been charged and arrested after investigators say she obtained a nursing home resident’s bank account information from…
Connecticut Personal Care Assistant Charged with Stealing from Medicaid
A Connecticut woman who worked as a personal care assistant has been arrested and charged with billing Medicaid for personal care services while the client…
Connecticut Woman Charged with Filing Fraudulent Medicaid Claims
A Connecticut woman has been arrested and charged with submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid. Ivette Betancourt, age 60, of Wethersfield, was arrested on October 22,…
Physician Charged with Performing Unnecessary Procedures and Reusing Devices
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Tennessee has returned a second superseding indictment charging a 44-year-old gynecologist with crimes related to his…
OMIG-Assisted Investigation Leads to Arrests in $2.9M Medicaid Transportation Fraud Case
The owners of two Orange County Medicaid transportation companies were arrested Oct. 30 following an Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG)-assisted investigation into allegations…
NY OMIG Update: New York RAC – Provider Portal Launched
Performant, the NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General’s (OMIG) New York Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC), has implemented a portal that enables providers to…
Federal Grand Jury Returns Second Superseding Indictment against Memphis Gynecologist
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Tennessee returned a second superseding indictment charging Sanjeev Kumar, 44, with crimes related to his performance…
MaineHealth Mistakenly Sends Death Notices to 531 Patients
Due to a computer error, Portland, Maine-based MaineHealth sent letters to 531 patients indicating they were dead, even though they were very much alive.
Indiana Man Charged with 43 Counts in $2.7 Million Medicaid Fraud Case
Following an investigation by Attorney General Todd Rokita’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), an Indiana man has been arrested and charged with 43 counts of…
Massachusetts Nurse Accused of Tampering with Oxy Intended for Dementia Patient
A Massachusetts nurse treating a hospice and dementia patient is accused of tampering with oxycodone, according to the feds who arrested her this week.