Six Kansans charged with Medicaid fraud, related crimes in national sweep

Six people, including one Wichita woman, are being charged in Kansas with Medicaid-fraud-related crimes as part of a national sweep.

The initiative, called the National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which the U.S. Justice Department has called the “largest health care fraud enforcement action” in department history, has swept up 600 defendants — including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals — in fraud schemes that have cost the Medicare and Medicaid programs about $2 billion in false billings.

Tuesday, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced his office has charged six people in five counties with crimes that may have resulted in more than $90,000 in false billings to the Kansas Medicaid program.

The charges range from stealing blank prescription pads to destroying evidence from Edwards County to Johnson County.

The details of each person’s positions in the health care system are not included in the documents provided to The Eagle by Schmidt’s office, but the charges being sought by the state are.

Brittany Jackson of Wichita is being charged in Sedgwick County with eight crimes in November of 2017. Those charges include Medicaid fraud; possession of two controlled substances, Hydrocodone and Oxycodone; three counts making false information with the intent to defraud or obstruct the detection of a felony offense; and theft of Hydrocodone and Oxycodone.

Lindsey Gill of Emporia is being charged in Lyon County with eight counts of medical-related crimes between November of 2014 and May of 2015. The charges include three counts of possession with intent to distribute three different controlled substances: Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, and Codeine. She is also being charged with forging prescriptions, unlawful distribution or possession of a controlled substance using a telecommunication device, unlawfully obtaining a prescription-only drug, Medicaid fraud, and theft of blank prescription pads.

Dorothy Gill of Burlington is being charged in Lyon County with four medical related crimes between April and May of 2015. The charges include possession of Oxycodone with intent to distribute, forging prescriptions, unlawfully obtaining a prescription-only drug, and medicaid fraud.

Rebecca Tosh of Pittsburg is being charged in Crawford County with three crimes between March of 2015 and October of 2016, including making a false claim to the Medicaid program, theft from the Medicaid program, and unlawful acts concerning computers.

Candy German of Larned is being charged in Edwards County with destruction or concealment of Medicaid-related records between May of 2014 and March of 2016.

Jeremy Bailey is being charged in Johnson County with three crimes on Feb. 6, 2018, including Medicaid fraud, theft of Percocet, and possession of a controlled substance.