LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Camille Funches, Rodshiekka Chester and their firm, Constructing Resilience, had been discovered responsible of fraudulently billing Medicaid for providers that weren’t carried out.
The investigation of the corporate started after the Medicaid Fraud Management Unit acquired a referral for providers not being supplied by Constructing Resilience.
In response to the Nevada Lawyer Common’s workplace, the investigation confirmed that Funches and Chester oversaw the billing providers and knew the providers weren’t supplied to Medicaid recipients, but billed for them. Interviews with Medicaid recipients additionally confirmed that they both did not obtain the service, or the variety of providers that had been billed was incorrect.
Funches and Chester had been positioned on probation for 2 years and have a suspended sentence of 19 to 48 months. They had been additionally ordered to pay restitution of $1 million to Medicaid.
Suspected Medicaid fraud may be reported to the MFUC at (702) 486-3420 or (775) 684-1100. A criticism can be submitted to the Nevada Lawyer Common’s workplace at this hyperlink.
