Home Health & Hospice Week
Agency Owner Draws 12-Year Prison Sentence For Medicaid Fraud
One of the most high-profile, egregious cases of Medicaid home care fraud has ended with a 12-year prison sentence and $4.3 million in restitution. Back in April, Timothy Mark Harron pleaded guilty to billing, with his wife, the North Carolina Medicaid program for home health services that were never provided through Agape Healthcare Services Inc., a Medicaid home health provider in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., Attorney General Josh Stein says in a release. The Harrons continued to bill North Carolina after moving to Maryland and then Las Vegas, laundering the funds to pay for a private jet, North Carolina property, luxury clothing and jewelry, and more, according to the release. The Harrons used obituaries to look up deceased Medicaid recipients, then back-billed for services for up to a year before their deaths. Harron has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $4.3 million in restitution, Stein says. His wife Latisha Harron pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced to 14 years in prison and $13.4 million in restitution in May (see HCW by AAPC, Vol. XXX, No. 20).
Home Health & Hospice Week
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