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A Florida mother-daughter duo, Tera Marie Campbell and Tayler Ann Krauss, orchestrated a multi-year healthcare fraud scheme in Wyoming, using Campbell’s behavioral health clinic, The Olive Branch, LLC, to submit fraudulent Medicaid claims for uncertified care and services that did not occur. The clinic, which operated in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Minot, North Dakota, relied on untrained employees and falsified records to bilk Medicaid out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The scheme ran from at least December 2020 to October 2022, with Campbell and Krauss indicted on May 21, 2025, and pleading guilty on April 9, 2026.
Campbell, the owner of the clinic, was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, while Krauss received two years of home confinement. The court also ordered both women to pay $735,717.63 in restitution to Wyoming Medicaid, with Campbell on the hook for an additional $135,890.91 to the military’s Tricare program. Krauss is co-responsible for up to $71,509.44 of the Tricare total.
The investigation found that the clinic submitted fraudulent claims for services that did not meet Medicaid requirements, including claims for dates when the clinic was closed and while Campbell was out of the country on vacation. Campbell and Krauss’s scheme was uncovered through a joint investigation, and they were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne on June 29 and 30, respectively.
Campbell was also sentenced in January for related frauds in North Dakota, where she received a three-year suspended sentence, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to repay an additional $225,000 to North Dakota’s Medicaid program. The total restitution owed by the mother-daughter duo exceeds $800,000.
📋 Key Facts
- Crime: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Defendant: Wyoming
- Location: WY
- Source: DOJ Press Release
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