The former operator of a Shelby County home healthcare agency faces charges of TennCare fraud and theft of property following an investigation by special agents with the Medicaid Fraud Control Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. In June 2022, TBI’s MFCD special agents received a fraud referral from the TennCare Office of Program Integrity, alleging overbilling by the owner of Tender Loving Care, also known as Elizabeth Home Care. During the course of the investigation, agents developed information that from July 2018 through August 2021, Elexis Braswell, the then-operator of the agency, knowingly billed TennCare for home healthcare related services for patients who were receiving treatment in area hospitals, which resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars to the State of Tennessee.