RICHMOND, Va. — The operator of a Richmond mental health agency faces federal charges after prosecutors say she ran a years-long Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted low-income and homeless Virginians.
The Department of Justice says Advancing Communities Everywhere, known as ACE, fraudulently billed Medicaid nearly $50 million from 2022 through 2026.
Prosecutors charged Mikia Noble, ACE’s chief operating officer, in connection with the alleged scheme. They say Noble and an unnamed co-conspirator targeted low-income and homeless people by purporting to provide them with community stabilization and mobile crisis services that they did not receive as billed and often did not need. Those services are designed to help people suffering a short-term behavioral health emergency…