DeKalb County, Georgia – Two owners of a behavioral health service are now facing felony charges after a DeKalb County grand jury accused them of running a Medicaid fraud operation for years that allegedly stole more than $1.4 million from Georgia’s public health system.
Attorney General Chris Carr said that Kim Higgins and Marcel Higgins, who both live in Woodstock, have been charged with conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud and a total of 23 counts of Medicaid fraud. The charges stem from their ownership and operation of Overcomers Day Services, LLC, a behavioral health facility that offered Intensive Family Intervention services to children covered by Georgia Medicaid.
Prosecutors say that the investigation is about billing procedures that were inaccurate from October 2017 to July 2023. During that time, investigators say the defendants made claims for services that were either never given or were delivered by people who did not fulfill Medicaid’s eligibility requirements. The indictment says that this behavior let the business get more than $1.4 million in illegal payments…