Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has concluded investigations in 10 counties, covering instances of fraud and abuse by health care providers.
The investigation, called Operation Sooner Shield, led to 10 arrests, two surrenders, 10 criminal cases and one civil action, according to a press release from Drummond’s office. It includes charges of Medicaid fraud, exploitation of elderly persons or disabled adults and identity theft, among others.
About half of the posted filings were dedicated to a civil action filed March 26 in the District Court of Oklahoma County against the Neuropathy Treatment Clinic of Oklahoma LLC, serving Oklahoma and Tulsa County, and its manager and indirect owner, James Warren Linn Jr. A notice of closure dated March 25 is posted on the clinic’s website…