Dr. Patrick Muffley of Lewis Center and Lisa Fillhart of Lima pleaded guilty on Oct. 19 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court in a scheme that took about $1.6 million ($1,645,052) from Ohio’s Medicaid program, Attorney General Andy Wilson’s office announced on Oct. 21, 2026. The state says the two submitted more than 27,000 fraudulent claims for telehealth services that were never provided.
For anyone on Medicaid, the concrete question is whether the visits listed under their name match the visits they actually attended. The claims in this case were dated, in many instances, on days when the doctor never logged into the telehealth portal…