Alleged Medicaid fraud: Provider for disabled patients is arrested

FLORIDA —Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has announced the arrest of the owner of a home and community-based services company for alleged Medicaid provider fraud.

Leslie Diane Minor, the owner of Minors Helping Hands Support Services, allegedly caused a loss of more than $12,000 to Florida Medicaid for billing for services never rendered.

“This home and community-based services provider overbilled Medicaid by more than $12,000. Her company billed for services not rendered to disabled adult patients for over a year and a half,” said Moody.

“Our Medicaid Fraud Control Unit put a stop to her scheme ripping off taxpayers and the Medicaid program.”

According to the investigation, Minor owned Minors Helping Hands Support Services, a Jacksonville-based company that assisted with day training for adults with developmental disabilities. During the time period of June 2019 through December 2022, Minor is alleged to have billed for services never rendered to four Medicaid recipients, causing a total loss to Medicaid of $12,335.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office assisted in the arrest of Minor, who faces one count of Medicaid provider fraud, a second-degree felony.

Attorney General Moody’s MFCU will prosecute the case through an agreement with the State Attorney’s Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit.