OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Two Medicaid providers have been convicted or pleaded guilty in separate cases after investigators said they used Medicaid recipients’ identities to bill for services that were never provided, including claims tied to deceased people and times when one provider was out of the country.
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured a conviction this week against Janice Cliver-Dudash, a licensed professional counselor who lives in Ocoee, Tenn.
Investigators said Cliver-Dudash billed Oklahoma Medicaid for behavioral therapy services she falsely claimed to have provided to Oklahomans. She was convicted of Medicaid fraud, identity theft and violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act. The unit said the scheme was discovered through its data mining process…