Pam Bondi On a Roll: Duval County Resident Arrested for $400,000 in Medicaid Fraud

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced the arrest of a Duval County woman accused of stealing more than $400,000 from Floridas Aged and Disabled Adult Waiver Program.

The attorney generals Medicaid Fraud Control Unit charged Edna Lorraine Watkins, 34, with two counts of Medicaid provider fraud and one count of grand theft. She is accused of billing Medicaid for services that were never rendered and billing for services to recipients who were ineligible for Medicaid. Some of the people to whom she claimed to have provided services were in jail at the time the services were supposedly rendered.

We will not allow people to abuse the Medicaid program by falsifying applications to become a provider and then essentially stealing from the program, Bondi stated in a press release.

Watkins is also accused of falsifying her application to become a Medicaid provider by concealing prior felony convictions and using a false Social Security number.

If convicted, she could face up to 90 years in prison and $30,000 in fines. She is already serving time in prison for prescription drug trafficking charges. The case will be prosecuted by the state attorneys office for the 4th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida.