AG: Former home health employee sentenced to 5 years for submitting over $25K of false Medicaid claims

AG: Former home health employee sentenced to 5 years for submitting over $25K of false Medicaid claims

A former Maryland home health employee was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after submitting over $25,000 worth of false healthcare claims.

Howard County Woman Sentenced in Maryland Medicaid Fraud

A 60-year-old Howard County woman has been sentenced to five years in prison, with all but time served suspended, after pleading guilty to felony public health fraud for faking home health care visits she never actually performed. Falguni Patel submitted more than $25,000 worth of false healthcare claims to Maryland Medicaid, according to state prosecutors, by generating fake time records while she was working another job or traveling out of the…