BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge man was arrested for allegedly committing Medicaid fraud, Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit said Wednesday.
On July 18, 38-year-old Johnny O’Neal Richardson was arrested for allegedly billing for non-emergency transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries who were either hospitalized or deceased.
Arrest documents said Richardson ran a company, Xpress, that provided non-emergency medical transportation. It’s covered by Medicaid, but trips where no transportation of the person billed takes place are not billable. According to documents, Xpress billed Medicaid for four separate claims where their services were not rendered…