Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Law

Woman accused of Medicaid overbilling must pay restitution

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln woman accused of overbilling Medicaid for services she provided an ailing client has been told to pay back the money.

Lancaster County District Court records say 56-year-old Debra Dukes was sentenced Monday to five years of probation, fined $2,400 and ordered to pay restitution of more than $8,100. She pleaded no contest to a fraud charge after prosecutors dropped another.

An arrest affidavit says she was paid more than $8,000 for 1,400 hours of aid that actually overlapped times the man was in a medical treatment facility. The affidavit says that under a service provider agreement she signed , she couldn't bill Medicaid while her client was in such a facility.

All contents © copyright 2018 Associated Press. All rights reserved.