(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that an independent home health nursing services provider has been ordered to pay $165,000 following her conviction on a felony charge of Medicaid fraud.
Julia Andrews, of Marysville, pleaded guilty to the charge today in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Judge Michael Holbrook then sentenced the defendant to a suspended 18 month prison sentence, with the condition that she successfully complete five years of community control.
Andrews was also ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution and $15,000 in investigative costs.
The case was investigated and prosecuted by employees with Attorney General DeWine's Health Care Fraud Section.
"Our investigators found that Andrews frequently billed Medicaid for providing services for a Medicaid recipient for 40 hours a week, as opposed to the 24 hours a month she was found to have actually worked," said Attorney General DeWine.
The defendant has made $75,000 in payments towards the restitution.
Andrews is also employed by the State Medical Board of Ohio, but the investigation was unrelated to her work with the Medical Board.
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