Six Health Care Employees Arrested for Medicaid Fraud

Attorney General Bill McCollum announced the arrest of six Manatee County women on charges of Medicaid fraud and organized fraud. The women, all employees of Acute Care Team, Inc., allegedly defrauded the state Medicaid program out of more than $2.6 million in counterfeit billing claims. The case was investigated by authorities with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

"Medicaid is an important resource which provides essential medical care to those who would otherwise be unable to receive it," said Attorney General McCollum. "Any time an organized scheme defrauds this program, countless Floridians are cheated out of valuable assistance."