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Medicaid & Medicare Fraud

Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Helps Secure Swift Con­vic­tion of Health­care Mar­keter for Ille­gal Kick­back Scheme

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit successfully secured a conviction against Patrick Osemwengie, of Richmond, Texas, in a Houston federal court.

May 16, 2023 | Press Release

Pax­ton Secures Jus­tice with Eight-Year Prison Sen­tence for Ambu­lance Own­er Who Per­pe­trat­ed $3.5 Mil­lion Fraud Scheme

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured a conviction against Floyd Eugene Dixon, owner of Ambu-Care Transportation, on the charges of first-degree felony theft and health care fraud.

May 09, 2023 | Press Release

Inves­ti­ga­tion by Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Leads to 60-Month Prison Sen­tence for Home Health Care Fraud­ster and Over $3 Mil­lion in Restitution

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated and helped secure the conviction and sentencing of Joyce Agu, a Sugar Land resident, to 60 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

April 28, 2023 | Press Release

Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Sends Two Nurs­es to Prison for Defraud­ing Medicare of Near­ly $1.5 Million

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured a prison sentence for two Houston nurses who were paying kickbacks to marketers, patients, and a physician. 

April 25, 2023 | Press Release

Inves­ti­ga­tion by Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Leads to 17-Year Prison Sen­tence for Fraud­ster Phar­ma­cist and $4 Mil­lion in Resti­tu­tion for Opi­oid Diver­sion Scheme

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has successfully concluded an investigation that led to the conviction and sentencing of Anthony Obute, the owner and pharmacist in charge of Keystone Pharmacy in Houston.

April 20, 2023 | Press Release

Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Charges Hous­ton Cou­ple with $8.7 Mil­lion Fraud Scheme

Efforts by Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit have led to a Houston couple being charged in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme.  

April 13, 2023 | Press Release

Paxton’s Office Inves­ti­gates and Suc­cess­ful­ly Pros­e­cutes Woman Who Attempt­ed to Defraud Med­ic­aid of Over $615,000

Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured a conviction for a woman who attempted to steal over $615,000 by submitting fraudulent reimbursement claims for services that were never provided.  

April 12, 2023 | Press Release

Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Con­trol Unit Helps Sen­tence For­mer Nurs­ing Facil­i­ty Man­ag­er to Ten Years in Prison for Steal­ing Over $300,000

An investigation by Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has led to the sentencing, to ten years in prison, of Robyn Nicole Calica, a former business office manager at the Heights on Huebner nursing facility in San Antonio.

March 20, 2023 | Press Release

Inves­ti­ga­tion by Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Unit Results in $1.1M in Resti­tu­tion to Health Care Programs

An investigation by Attorney General Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has led to the sentencing for health care fraud of two individuals in federal court in Del Rio, Texas.  

February 27, 2023 | Press Release

Inves­ti­ga­tion by Paxton’s Med­ic­aid Fraud Unit Helps Lead to Arrest of Nine Indi­vid­u­als Accused of Dis­trib­ut­ing 1.5 Mil­lion Opi­oid Pills

As a result of a joint investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the DEA, FBI, the US Postal Service-Office of Inspector General, and the US Postal Inspection Service, nine individuals have been arrested in Houston for the unlawful distribution of 1.5 million opioid pills and other controlled substances.

February 13, 2023 | Press Release