Kansas City man must pay Medicaid, serve probation for health care fraud

A Kansas City man will repay the state’s Medicaid program $5,173 and spend a year on probation for health care fraud, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Friday.

Courtney Jamar Anderson, 28, pleaded guilty in June to one count of making a false claim to Medicaid for billing the program for work he didn’t do. The conviction and his sentence Friday in Wyandotte County District Court also means Anderson is banned from working for pay for a governmental health care program for a period of time, Schmidt said.

Anderson claimed he rendered in-home personal care attendant services between January and April 2012 to a patient who was in the hospital and billed Medicaid for the time, leading to the charges.

Anderson’s is the eighth case closed under “Operation No Show,” a joint effort by Schmidt’s office and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General to investigate Medicaid billing fraud for personal care services.

More than $335,000 in restitution has been ordered paid to Medicaid because of the efforts, Schmidt said.

This story was originally published September 11, 2015 at 4:16 PM with the headline "Kansas City man must pay Medicaid, serve probation for health care fraud."