FORNEY, Texas — A Forney, Texas, woman was arrested last week and charged for her alleged involvement in a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme run through a Dallas-based medical house call service, according to a Department of Justice press release.
FORNEY, Texas — A Forney, Texas, woman was arrested last week and charged for her alleged involvement in a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme run through a Dallas-based medical house call service, according to a Department of Justice press release.
46-year-old Blanca Mata of Forney, Texas, was arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and four counts of health care fraud. 51-year-old Hector Molina of Irving, Texas, was also arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and eight counts of health care fraud.
According to allegations in an indictment, Mata was an employee of Molina Medical Housecall Services in Dallas, Texas. Molina owned and operated the business.
“The indictment alleges that from approximately June 2012 through January 2015, Molina and Mata conspired to defraud Medicare by billing for home visits performed by Mata, who was not a physician, as if Molina had performed the home visits,” states the release. “Additionally, the indictment alleges that Molina billed for home visits performed in the Dallas area while he was out of the country.”
Molina and Mata made their initial appearances before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver of the Northern District of Texas on Friday, May 8, 2015, and were released on bond.
This case is being investigated by Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General’s Dallas Regional Office, the Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the FBI and U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General’s, and was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, under the supervision of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Jason Knutson of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section.
