Nine Medicaid providers and one Medicaid recipient are facing fraud charges after indictments filed this month in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that investigators uncovered a combined $478,000 in alleged losses to the state’s Medicaid program. The cases were handled by the Ohio Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which investigates health-care providers accused of defrauding the system.
According to the indictments, the allegations include overbilling for services not provided, falsifying documentation, billing while traveling out of state, and in one case, a kickback scheme between a provider and a client that allegedly resulted in more than $212,000 in losses.
Several defendants are accused of inflating hours or billing on days they did not work. In some cases, investigators say the providers admitted to the fraudulent activity when confronted.
