Indictments filed this month by the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost accuse 16 Medicaid providers of stealing a combined $1.7 million from the government healthcare program for the needy. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, an arm of Yost’s office, investigated the cases and secured the indictments in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. The cases include two people who, because of felony convictions, were prohibited from providing services to Medicaid recipients yet received hundreds of thousands of dollars, a home health aide who billed for services while on a cruise to Hawaii, and several providers who billed for home services while their clients were in the hospital.