Medicaid fraud through filing and maintaining false public records

On April 16, 2009, there appeared a public announcement that the Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested nine persons for participating in Medicaid Fraud scheme designed to take money for services without actually rendering them. All of the arrested were former and current personal care attendants at First Thessalonians Community Programs, Inc. located in Hammond, Louisiana and is providing personal care services for the disabled. MFCU investigators found out the suspects were falsifying timesheets and service logs for work with the purpose of having the Medicaid program billed for nothing. The list of these 9 individuals all of whom were detained, arrested by the police and then put into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison was headed by Joyce M. Cyprian, born 14 apr. 1957, suspected of 113 Counts of Medicaid Fraud and of 113 Counts of Filing or Maintaining False Public Records. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit stated that the investigation is in process and asked everyone who thinks he or she is suspecting of possible been used in this medicaid fraud, to contact the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at 1-888-799-6885.