LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas grand jury indicted a girl for practically $5 million of alleged Medicaid fraud.
Leasa Yvonne Carter is charged with three felony counts of submitting false statements for Medicaid fraud, perjury, and theft of $100,00, together with one gross misdemeanor of intentional failure to keep up ample data.
Carter served as a Medicaid supplier via ‘Sq. One Behavioral Well being’ at two Las Vegas areas and billed Medicaid from Sept. 2018 to Nov. 2023 regardless of her Medicaid contract being terminated in 2014 for seven years, based on the Nevada Legal professional Normal’s workplace.
Carter labored with Rickey Andrey Pierre, who had a felony historical past, and Ariell Olivia Dix, who had additionally been excluded from Medicaid, to invoice Medicaid, prosecutors wrote.
Medicaid wouldn’t have permitted Sq. One’s Medicaid enrollment if Carter’s, Pierre’s, or Dix’s involvement had been disclosed, based on the indictment.
“Consequently, all of the approximately 47,601 claims submitted through Square One and all of the money paid for services allegedly provided through Square One, which totaled approximately $4,969,554.18, were submitted and obtained through concealment of a material fact,” the indictment reads.
Carter was additionally answerable for “billing as if individual providers were providing an impossible amount of services,” and billed the companies underneath the names and identifications of suppliers who by no means truly supplied the companies.
Carter is often known as Leasa Yvonne Sanders, Leasa Yvonne Gonzalez, Leasa Y. Carter, and Leasa Sanders, based on the indictment.
Carter is scheduled to seem in court docket on Oct. 22.
Pierre pleaded responsible in reference to the Medicaid fraud via ‘Sq. One Behavioral Well being’ and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 4, based on court docket data.
Dix additionally has a historical past of Medicaid fraud in Nevada and Arizona. She is presently serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence she obtained in Could 2024 after pleading responsible to 2 felony prices of unlawful management of an enterprise in Arizona. Dix helped facilitate Medicaid fraud by establishing faux clinics, based on the Arizona Legal professional Normal’s workplace. Her projected launch date is in Could 2027.
Dix is often known as Ariella Olivia Dix.
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