Three Houston-area women are accused of defrauding the US government out of more than $80 million in federal Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement funds.
Federal prosecutors have indicted the owner of United Palliative & Hospice Care (UPHC) and two others in the wide-ranging fraud case. The charge includes the owner of UPHC Dera Ogudo, an employee of UPHC Victoria Martinez, and a psychiatric hospital employee, Evelyn Shaw.
According to court documents, prosecutors allege that “Ogudo, her family members, and her co-conspirators owned and operated several group homes in the Houston area where elderly, disabled, and mentally ill Medicare beneficiaries lived.”…