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Anonymous ID: e84be3 May 13, 2020, 3:03 p.m. No.9159559   🗄️.is đź”—kun

many such cases?

 

Health Care Fraud Ring Busted

 

Youth Football Coach Set Up After-School Programs to Bilk Medicaid

 

Matthew Harrell appeared to be the owner of several mental health businesses that treated young people. But he wasn’t a mental health provider; he was a youth football coach.

 

“He got kids’ information when they signed up for football camp and other after-school activities he sponsored,” said Special Agent Gregory Peacock, who investigated this case out of the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office. “He used that information to bill Medicaid for mental health services that were never provided.”

 

Although he started in Georgia, Harrell, 44, eventually expanded his business into Florida and Louisiana. In Louisiana, Harrell bought a list of 13,000 stolen identities of children who were on Louisiana’s Medicaid program. Harrell used the data to bilk Louisiana’s Medicaid program out of more than a half-million dollars in mental health services never provided.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/health-care-fraud-ring-busted-051320