OKLAHOMA CITY (June 9, 2026) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) secured a conviction this week against a Tennessee counselor and a guilty plea from a Nichols Hills behavioral analyst after investigations of fraud, identity theft and violations of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act.
Janice Cliver-Dudash, a Licensed Professional Counselor who resides in Ocoee, Tenn., billed Oklahoma Medicaid for behavioral therapy services she falsely claimed to have provided to Oklahomans. She was convicted of Medicaid fraud, identity theft and violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act. The scheme was discovered by MFCU’s data mining process.
Cliver-Dudash illegally used Medicaid recipients’ identifying information last year to submit fraudulent bills and then received payments from public funds to which she was not entitled. In some instances, she submitted fraudulent bills for services to deceased individuals…