C Care Services Owner Sentenced to 12 Months in Jail for Fraudulently Billing Medicaid

 

C Care Services Owner Sentenced to 12 Months in Jail for Fraudulently Billing Medicaid

 

May 11, 2016
Wednesday PM

(SitNews) Anchorage, Alaska -The Alaska Department of Law, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, announced Tuesday that 51 year old Cecelia De Leon Sobier was sentenced to 12 months of active incarceration plus 10 years of probation. Judge Michael D. Corey also ordered Sobier to pay a $15,000 fine, restitution to the State of Alaska, Medicaid program in the amount of $73,500.00, and restitution to Wells Fargo Bank in the amount of $18,267.39. Sobier pled guilty to Attempted Medical Assistance Fraud in association with her operation of personal care attendant agency C Care Services, LLC.

Sobier admitted to committing Medical Assistance Fraud in multiple ways. For example, one recipient received over $28,000 in PCA services paid by Medicaid when the recipient in fact did not need the assistance. Sobier admitted that most of the fraudulent billing for this recipient was done at her direction and that she in fact completed the fraudulent timesheets for a period of

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