Posted on 03/31/2021 7:53:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The North Carolina Medicaid program doled out close to $214,000 over nearly two years for made-up therapy treatments, according to federal prosecutors.
Now a business owner accused of profiting off the scheme is going to prison.
Pamela Grace Faulkner, 60, was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and ordered to pay $213,927 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a news release. She pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit health care fraud in 2019.
A defense attorney representing Faulkner did not immediately respond to McClatchy News’ request for comment Tuesday.
Faulkner runs Skeen Services Inc., a registered Medicaid provider with offices in Greensboro, Greenville, Lumberton and Wilson in North Carolina, court filings show.
She is accused of partnering with 36-year-old Renee Christine Borunda to submit thousands of fraudulent Medicaid reimbursement claims on behalf of Skeen Services between 2013 and 2014. Borunda was sentenced in 2018 to serve three years in prison and pay close to $226,000 in restitution.
She has since asked for compassionate release, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, unsafe prison conditions and underlying health conditions, court documents show.
Skeen Services has been registered with the N.C. Secretary of State as a limited liability company since 2009. It has a principal address in Greensboro and previously went by the names Skeen Behavior Services and Skeen Personal Care Services. Faulkner is listed as the registered agent.
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Compassionate release? She needs malicious confinement.
The North Carolina Medicaid program doled out close to $214,000 over nearly two years for made-up therapy treatments, according to federal prosecutors.
Now a business owner accused of profiting off the scheme is going to prison.
Pamela Grace Faulkner, 60, was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and ordered to pay $213,927 in restitution
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So was $73 worth of charges legit?
pay close to $226,000 in restitution....
I wonder has she paid the money back?
Let me guess why the compassionate release
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