Investigation into Medicaid fraud in Kentucky has led to the guilty plea of an Indiana woman.
According to Attorney General Russell Coleman, 56-year-old Sylvia Townsend-Marlow of Corydon, Indiana entered a guilty plea to a total of seven felonies, including two counts of presenting fraudulent claims to defraud Kentucky’s Medical Assistance program and five counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree.
According to an investigation by the AG’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control, Townsend-Marlow received nearly $71,000 in payments from Medicaid by submitting fraudulent timesheets to Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
The fraudulent claims happened over a two-year period.
The judge sentenced Townsend-Marlow to five years’ probation and ordered her to pay restitution in the amount of $70,838.91.