Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have charged a personal care aide and a Medicaid recipient with conspiring to bill Pennsylvania's Medicaid program for in-home care during periods when the recipient was incarcerated in Bucks County and, on other occasions, working a construction job.
The allegations appear in one of several indictments announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alongside the Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. Prosecutors say the scheme involving Tiziana Taormina and Joseph Pizzo resulted in at least $160,000 in Medicaid claims through false and fraudulent clock-ins. The charges are allegations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
