LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The proprietor of a Las Vegas psychological well being clinic, The Therapeutic Tree Wellness Heart, was positioned on probation in a Medicaid billing case, the Nevada Legal professional Normal’s Workplace introduced Thursday.
Marjorie Landron, 48, who owns the enterprise close to Summerlin Parkway and City Heart Drive, was sentenced to 364 days in jail, suspended, and positioned on probation. She was ordered to pay enforcement prices to the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace. The quantity was not disclosed.
Landron’s firm was convicted of a felony for submitting false Medicaid claims in November 2024 and ordered to pay $198,000 in restitution.
District Court docket Decide Jennifer Schwartz sentenced Landron for intentional failure to take care of sufficient information, a gross misdemeanor. The corporate billed Medicaid, and couldn’t produce information when the Medicaid Fraud Management Unit (MFCU) appeared into the matter. The investigation was prompted by a report from Nevada Medicaid.
The investigation revealed that providers weren’t offered as billed to Medicaid by Therapeutic Tree, in response to a Thursday information launch from the AG’s workplace. Moreover, as proprietor of the corporate, Landron failed to take care of information that might substantiate the providers that have been purportedly offered to Nevada Medicaid recipients.
“Healthcare providers who defraud Medicaid are stealing from Nevada’s most vulnerable residents and taxpayers who fund these essential services,” Nevada Legal professional Normal Aaron Ford stated. “My office will continue to pursue those who exploit our healthcare system and ensure they face the full consequences of their actions.”
