Georgia – Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has announced a statewide Medicaid fraud takedown that has led to indictments against five people accused of stealing more than $41,000 from the Georgia Medicaid program.
The cases center on alleged fraud involving Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver programs, which support patients receiving care outside traditional institutional settings. According to Carr’s office, indictments were secured in Athens-Clarke, Gwinnett, Houston and Richmond counties after investigations by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Patient Protection Division and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
“Billing for hours never worked is one of the most pervasive forms of Medicaid fraud, and it will result in prosecution by our office,” said Carr…