FLORIDA — The manager of a Florida group home for disabled adults is accused of Medicaid fraud.
Ladrica Denise Gibbs, a Miami-Dade County healthcare worker, was arrested on March 29, said Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU).
Gibbs allegedly billed Medicaid for services never provided. According to the investigation, Gibbs falsely claimed to have provided companion services to Medicaid recipients, causing a loss to the state Medicaid program of more than $20,000., the MFCU said in a statement.
“This defendant worked as a manager of a group home and claimed to also provide companion services for Medicaid recipients. She falsely filled out service reports, causing the taxpayer-funded program to lose more than $20,000,” said Moody.
“My Medicaid fraud investigators uncovered this scheme, and now the defendant will face justice.”
According to an MFCU investigation, Gibbs worked as a manager at a group home for disabled adults and allegedly provided life-companion services to some Medicaid recipients. However, one of Gibbs’s supposed patients is alleged to have claimed that the defendant never provided care.
The investigation concluded that Gibbs caused a loss to Florida Medicaid of more than $20,000 between Aug. 5, 2019, to Feb. 10, 2022, said the MFCU.
Gibbs is charged with one count of Medicaid provider fraud/filing a false claim, more than $10,000 but less than $50,000, a second-degree felony.
The case will be prosecuted by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, 11th Judicial Circuit.
