LEXINGTON, Ky. — Delores Jordan, the owner of a Lexington sober-living company, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal kickback conspiracy, admitting she took payments in exchange for steering urine drug tests to outside labs that billed Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid more than $2.5 million, according to a signed plea agreement filed this week in U.S. District Court. In return, prosecutors will move to dismiss 11 remaining counts of health-care fraud at sentencing, the document states.
Jordan, who founded Serenity Keepers on Aug. 20, 2019, in Fayette County, acknowledged that beginning in fall 2019 she solicited kickbacks—paid by check, cash and electronic transfers—for referring her clients’ urine drug testing to three laboratories. By October 2021, those payments increased to $5,000 apiece and were routed as “consulting” checks or ACH transfers to a company tied to co-defendant Jerome Davis, X-Tremly for Christ LLC, the plea says.
In all, Medicare and Kentucky’s Department for Medicaid Services paid approximately $234,832 to one lab, $1,584,321 to a second, and $750,792 to a third for tests referred from Serenity Keepers during the scheme, the filing states. One example cited in the agreement: on Nov. 30, 2021, a $5,000 check was issued to Davis’s company as part of the kickback arrangement…