Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced that the owner of Cranford home health aide provider was charged with fraudulent billing Medciad for services that were never rendered.
CRANFORD — State authorities today charged the owner of a township-based company that provides home health care aides with submitting bills to Medicaid for services that were never rendered over a period of more than two years.
Laurie Provost, 53, of Sea Girt, owner of Home Care Solutions, was charged with seven counts of second-degree health care claims fraud and one count of third-degree Medicaid fraud, Acting Attorney General John Hoffman said in a statement.
State officials allege Provost submitted multiple requests for payment for services that were not provided, including bills for services to Medicaid beneficiaries while they were hospitalized or on vacation, Hoffman said.
He said Provost's company sends health care aides to serve Medicaid patients in their homes.
The charges cover bills filed from 2011 through this year, Hoffman said.
Today investigators from the state Office of the Fraud Insurance Prosecutor executed search warrants at the company's Commerce Drive office, as well as Provost's home and her 2009 Porsche Ceyanne, authorities said.
"Defrauding the Medicaid program is a very serious crime that puts an unfair burden on honest taxpayers and takes money out of a system meant to help those who are most vulnerable,” Hoffman said.
Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Ronald Chillemi credited the state comptroller's office with first referring the matter for investigation.
A call to the Provost's company office was not immediately returned.
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