A former Alabama Medicaid employee has been sentenced after pleading guilty to theft by deception involving more than $100,000.
Attorney General Steve Marshall said Natalie Lewis has been sentenced to ten years in prison, with three years to serve. After serving three years, Lewis will be placed on probation for two years, with the remaining seven years suspended. Judge Brooke Reid ordered Lewis to begin serving her sentence immediately in the county jail.
Lewis pleaded guilty in August, admitting to using her position as a Medicaid employee to approve fraudulent payments over 1,600 times over five years. Those payments were loaded onto an EBT card that Lewis used, Marshall said…