Andrea R. Williams Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud

Source- http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ip032411.html

INDIANAPOLIS—Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney, announced today that Andrea R. Williams, 23, Connersville, Ind., was sentenced to two years’ probation today by U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence, for health care fraud following a six month investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

From January 2008, and continuing through May 20, 2010, Andrea Williams, the billing manager of Handy Van Medical Transportation (HVM), used her position at the company to carry out a scheme to defraud the Indiana Medicaid Program.

HVM is a company operating in the Connersville, Ind., area which transports Indiana Medicaid beneficiaries to medical appointments. Williams, as the billing manager, submitted claims for payment to Indiana Medicaid falsely indicating that HVM was providing all of its services to wheelchair bound patients, thereby causing Indiana Medicaid to pay at higher rate. Williams further represented that most patients required an additional attendant to help transport these patients which was also false.

Law enforcement executed a search warrant at the premises of HVM on May 20, 2010. During this search, Williams confessed to the above scheme. As a result of her actions, Indiana Medicaid lost $102.012.02.


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