2 charged in fraud with Medicaid bills

Two Crittenden County women have been arrested on charges accusing them of billing the state Medicaid program for home-based services they didn't provide, state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Wednesday.

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Pamela Pollard, 36, of Marion and Lacasha Perry, 38, of West Memphis were each arrested on one count of Medicaid fraud, Rutledge said in a news release.

According to an affidavit by Mary Bowen, an investigator with the attorney general's Medicaid fraud control unit, Pollard, an employee of Golden's Adult Day Care, billed Medicaid for $469.28 worth of personal care services that she provided to a woman from May 24, 2014, to June 3, 2014.

The woman was hospitalized during that time and was not eligible for the services, Bowen said in the affidavit.

Pollard also billed for an additional $938.56 worth of services for the woman from June 3, 2014, to July 4, 2014, when the woman was "not present at her residence," Bowen said.

According to an affidavit by unit investigator Rhonda Swindle, Perry is accused of billing Medicaid $972 for home-based services that she claimed to have provided to a man in July 2015, after Perry had stopped showing up at the man's house.

Bank records indicated that Perry made personal bank transactions during the times she claimed to have provided the services, Swindle wrote.

Perry was booked into the Crittenden County jail on Tuesday and released the same day, according to jail records.

Pollard was booked into the Pulaski County jail on Tuesday and released Wednesday on $4,000 bond, a jail deputy said.

Metro on 04/28/2016

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