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Medicaid HHA Fraudsters Sentenced To Years In Jail

Published on Wed Jun 08, 2011

The crackdown on Medicaid fraud in home care continues. In Winston-Salem, N.C., two Medicaid HHA owners were sentenced to two years in jail for fraud related to their businesses Universal Services Inc., Reynolds Home Care, and Triage Behavioral Health Systems. Ruben McLain and Michelle Judge McLain established a business bank account with a false tax ID number and used it to pay for personal items like their home, their kids' school tuition, and jewelry, says a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of North Carolina. And the McLains pled guilty to "submitting a false enrollment application to the North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance that concealed their involvement in the companies through the use of a nominee and a fictitious person," the release says. The McLains withheld income, social security, and Medicare taxes from their employees' wages without paying them to the IRS and failed to [...]
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