MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – A former Alabama Medicaid employee was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for stealing $100,000 in Medicaid funds, according to the office of the Attorney General.
Natalie Lewis, 60, of Montgomery, pled guilty in August to using her position as a Medicaid employee to approve more than 1,600 fraudulent payments over five years, totaling over $100,000. The payments were loaded onto an EBT card that Lewis used to make purchases.
At Lewis’s sentencing hearing Monday, a judge sentenced her to 10 years in prison with three years to serve. After her initial three-year term, the court said Lewis will be placed on probation for two years, with the remaining seven years suspended. Lewis was ordered to begin serving immediately in the county jail.
The court said it will determine later whether Lewis may serve the remainder of her three-year sentence in the community correction program…