Tag: Medicaid
Marisol Rodriguez, Medicaid Fraud, Connecticut 2023
⏱ 2 min read Marisol Rodriguez, a 49-year-old Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), defrauded Connecticut’s Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent claims for medication management services that were never provided. The scheme, which took place in Connecticut, involved Rodriguez billing Medicaid for services she never rendered, including to patients who had stopped seeing her, were hospitalized,…
Salud Para La Gente, Medicaid Fraud, California 2020
⏱ 2 min read Salud Para La Gente, a nonprofit network of primary care clinics in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations of submitting false claims to Medicaid for misbranded contraceptives. Between May 17, 2017, and September 11, 2020, Salud purchased and administered misbranded etonogestrel, marketed under the…
Dr. Michael David, Healthcare Fraud, California 2019
⏱ 2 min read A St. Louis chiropractor and his partners in crime peddled pain pills to unsuspecting patients, ripping off Medicaid, Medicare, and Tricare for millions. Jerry Leech, 53, of Clayton, got 100 months in the slammer for his role in the racket. Leech, along with co-conspirators Dr. Stanley Librach of Chesterfield and Dr.…
Paul Richard Randall, Wire Fraud, California 2022
⏱ 2 min read An Orange County man orchestrated a brazen $270 million Medi-Cal scam, bilking the public health program for expensive prescription drugs containing generic ingredients that were neither medically necessary nor provided to the recipients. Paul Richard Randall, 66, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud committed while on release, capping an…
Markita Barnes, Healthcare Fraud, Wisconsin 2023
Milwaukee – Markita Barnes, 33, will spend the next decade behind bars after a federal jury convicted her of a brazen scheme to steal over $2.3 million from a Wisconsin program designed to help vulnerable pregnant women and new mothers. Barnes received a 121-month sentence Monday, a harsh penalty reflecting the depth of her betrayal…
Markita Barnes, Medicaid Fraud, Wisconsin 2026
⏱ 3 min read Milwaukee mom Markita Barnes, 33, is starting a decade-plus stretch in federal prison after a jury convicted her of systematically looting Wisconsin’s Medicaid program. Barnes ran a prenatal care coordination company in Milwaukee and siphoned off a staggering $2,361,799.17 meant to help at-risk pregnant women and mothers with young children. The…
