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Karen Sweeney

Mum will be jailed for $180,000 Medicare fraud

A mother with a history for medical fraud will be jailed after scamming $180,000 from Medicare. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A Melbourne mother with a history for medical fraud will go to jail after scamming $180,000 from Medicare, but her sentence has been delayed until a decision on whether her baby can go with her.

Sarah Ward, 31, was working as a receptionist at the Melbourne Digestive Clinic when she began putting through hundreds of dodgy Medicare claims for herself and her husband.

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