Solon Couple’s $750,000 Medicaid Scam Exposed
A Solon couple, Antwain and Temeca Hamilton, have been indicted on nine counts of health care fraud, accused of defrauding Medicaid out of approximately $750,000 by providing ambulette rides to patients who did not use or need wheelchairs.
The couple, both 37, were arrested this morning and charged along with their company, Star Medical Transportation, located at 16004 Broadway Ave., Maple Heights, Ohio.
According to the indictment, the defendants billed Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of services that they never provided and got paid for it in taxpayer dollars.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and United States Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced the indictment, citing the couple’s alleged abuse of a program designed to help those who cannot get themselves to doctors’ appointments.
The indictment alleges that the defendants defrauded Medicaid out of approximately $750,000 between 2010 and 2013 by charging Medicaid for rides of patients who did not use or need wheelchairs, billing Medicaid for ambulette attendants when no such attendants were used and billing Medicaid for transports that never occurred.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael L. Collyer and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Constance Nearhood, an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio.
Temeca Hamilton faces an additional count of witness tampering, accused of asking a Medicaid recipient to tell law enforcement that she had been receiving transportation services from Star Transport for the last five years, which is false.
Antwain Hamilton and Temeca Hamilton are entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Key Facts
- State: Ohio
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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