Anchorage group home owners charged in $14.7M Medicaid fraud scheme

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – An Alaska grand jury has indicted six defendants and three Anchorage-area group-home companies on charges tied to an alleged scheme that fraudulently billed nearly $14.7 million to the state Medicaid program, the Alaska Department of Law said Tuesday.

Kyle Bates, Molly Bates and Peyton Love, along with Heritage Assisted Living Home LLC, Heritage Home LLC and Alaska Life Group Home LLC, face multiple counts of scheme to defraud, first-degree theft and medical assistance fraud. The indictment also includes one count of falsifying business records against the defendants.

Kyle and Molly Bates are additionally charged with second-degree criminal impersonation…

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