[An Oklahoma City mental health counselor is accused of cheating taxpayers out of $34,000 while already on probation for Medicaid fraud.
Vickie Rhea Yearwood The 53-year-old is accused of submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in November.
The therapist, Vickie Rhea Yearwood, 53, is accused in her newest Medicaid fraud case of submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in October, November and December.
Yearwood pleaded guilty a year ago to a felony Medicaid fraud charge. An Oklahoma County judge put her on probation for five years. She paid almost $8,000 in restitution and other costs on the 2010 case.
Prosecutors reported her excuse for committing fraud in the first case was her own mounting health costs. An investigator for the attorney general reported she claimed to have more than $20,000 in medical expenses from an illness and that treatments cost $3,000 each.
Prosecutors said they discovered more wrongdoing last November when Yearwood asked the judge to end her probation early and dismiss the case so she could continue being a therapist...]
http://newsok.com/vickie-rhea-yearw...edicaid-fraud-for-second-time/article/3663930
Any possible contradiction in the story? How was she committing fraud in cases being a therapist if she needed her probation ended and case dismissed to be a therapist?
Vickie Rhea Yearwood The 53-year-old is accused of submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in November.
The therapist, Vickie Rhea Yearwood, 53, is accused in her newest Medicaid fraud case of submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority in October, November and December.
Yearwood pleaded guilty a year ago to a felony Medicaid fraud charge. An Oklahoma County judge put her on probation for five years. She paid almost $8,000 in restitution and other costs on the 2010 case.
Prosecutors reported her excuse for committing fraud in the first case was her own mounting health costs. An investigator for the attorney general reported she claimed to have more than $20,000 in medical expenses from an illness and that treatments cost $3,000 each.
Prosecutors said they discovered more wrongdoing last November when Yearwood asked the judge to end her probation early and dismiss the case so she could continue being a therapist...]
http://newsok.com/vickie-rhea-yearw...edicaid-fraud-for-second-time/article/3663930
Any possible contradiction in the story? How was she committing fraud in cases being a therapist if she needed her probation ended and case dismissed to be a therapist?
