Cynthia Ann Herrera, a 48-year-old Edinburg resident has been taken into custody on charges of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to defraud the Texas Medicaid Program. The indictment, returned April 15 and unsealed upon her arrest, alleges she submitted or caused the submission of fraudulent claims to Medicaid for prescriptions that a doctor had never prescribed. Between 2018 and 2024, the claims resulted in more than $2 million in Medicaid payments, according to the charges. Herrera allegedly used the personal information of doctors without their consent to bill Medicaid for the prescriptions.