JSO says one man is in his late-20s while the other man is in his early-30s.
The 20 people are individually accused of organized schemes to defraud over $50,000 and 9 out of the 20 individuals have been additionally charged with racketeering.CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — Three Clay County individuals are among soon-to-be 20 arrested in a $5 million Florida Medicaid fraud scheme, according to a
"These fraudsters operated a non-emergency medical transportation service that was supposed to help patients receive care," Moody said in the release."Instead, they billed Medicaid for thousands of trips never provided and inflated the mileage for the trips actually completed - in all, causing a loss to this taxpayer-funded program of more than $5 million."
Moody's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit's investigation revealed that Jose Enrique Hernandez Fernandez owned Sweet Transportation, LLC, which contracted to provide non-emergency medical transportation services to Medicaid recipients, the release states. Over the course of at least two years, Hernandez Fernandez and Sweet Transportation, LLC employees billed Medicaid for thousands of trips never provided and inflated mileage on trips that were completed, the release also states.
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