A Medicaid recipient who claimed to need round-the-clock home health care is alleged to have been secretly working as a carpenter, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday, as it announced new fraud charges linked to more than £3.1 million ($4 million) in bogus Medicare and Medicaid claims.
Nineteen defendants, including health care company owners and purported aides, face federal and state charges in connection with schemes totalling more than £3.1 million ($4 million) in claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid. These public health programmes are designed to protect vulnerable citizens, and prosecutors said the alleged conduct misused taxpayer-funded resources.
