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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 30, 2020, 07:42 AM Nov 2020

Health clinic owner charged with theft of Medicaid funds

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The owner of a health clinic based in Spokane, Washington, is facing charges of theft and money laundering after investigators alleged fraudulent Medicaid billing totaling more than $5 million since 2017.

The Spokesman-Review reports Paul Means, and his firm Abilia Healthcare, were targeted following an audit of its billing by the Washington State Health Care Authority that revealed irregularities. Investigators believe the proceeds of the scheme, which involved billing the state for intensive, in-person examinations when they were conducted over the internet or not at all, were used to buy a $300,000 home on Spokane’s South Hill and several vehicles.

Means, who has been practicing in the state since 2009 and has no evidence of discipline from the Washington Department of Health, declined to comment on the allegations when reached by the newspaper by phone Wednesday. No attorney was listed in court records as of Wednesday.

Investigators from the Washington Attorney General Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division have been tracking Means since at least March, according to court records.

Read more: https://www.idahopress.com/news/state/health-clinic-owner-charged-with-theft-of-medicaid-funds/article_7bb8321b-f912-5874-ade2-184ef97adf12.html

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Health clinic owner charged with theft of Medicaid funds (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2020 OP
Paul Means must be planning a run for governor or senate. iemitsu Nov 2020 #1

iemitsu

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1. Paul Means must be planning a run for governor or senate.
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 02:41 PM
Nov 2020

Follow in the footsteps of Rick Scott of Florida.

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