Post by Logan on Feb 12, 2016 6:21:41 GMT -6
O'Fallon, Ill. woman gets probation for health care fraud, billed government while on tropical vacation
EAST ST. LOUIS • A woman from O'Fallon, Ill. was sentenced this week for billing the federal government for home health services while she was actually on a Caribbean cruise and in Costa Rica.
Ann Marie Sheppard, 55, was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation, with the first six months in home detention, on charges she engaged in a scheme to steal from a health care program and for committing two related mail frauds, according to James L. Porter, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
Sheppard was also ordered to pay more than $34,000 in restitution to the Home Services Program, a Medicaid program designed to help people stay in their homes instead of going into a nursing home. Sheppard worked as a personal assistant and falsely billed the program between June 2013 and April 2015.
Sheppard was among at least twelve people in southern Illinois who were indicted as part of a nationwide health care fraud sweep that led to charges against 243 people accused of bilking Medicare and Medicaid, the government announced in June.
Read more: www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/o-fallon-ill-woman-gets-probation-for-health-care-fraud/article_e8c418f6-4fc1-5777-a5ed-0e579728b895.html
EAST ST. LOUIS • A woman from O'Fallon, Ill. was sentenced this week for billing the federal government for home health services while she was actually on a Caribbean cruise and in Costa Rica.
Ann Marie Sheppard, 55, was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation, with the first six months in home detention, on charges she engaged in a scheme to steal from a health care program and for committing two related mail frauds, according to James L. Porter, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
Sheppard was also ordered to pay more than $34,000 in restitution to the Home Services Program, a Medicaid program designed to help people stay in their homes instead of going into a nursing home. Sheppard worked as a personal assistant and falsely billed the program between June 2013 and April 2015.
Sheppard was among at least twelve people in southern Illinois who were indicted as part of a nationwide health care fraud sweep that led to charges against 243 people accused of bilking Medicare and Medicaid, the government announced in June.
Read more: www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/o-fallon-ill-woman-gets-probation-for-health-care-fraud/article_e8c418f6-4fc1-5777-a5ed-0e579728b895.html