The New Mexico Attorney General announced a $13.7 million settlement with Centene Corp. The settlement was a result of the state attorney general’s investigation of Centene’s subsidiaries’ pharmacy benefits pricing and reporting provided to the New Mexico Medicaid program. The investigation had focused on concerns that Centene was layering fees and not passing on retail discounts to New Mexico’s Medicaid program.
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AG Hector Balderas Secures Prison Sentence Of Woman Who Defrauded Medicaid Program Of More Than $445,000
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SANTA FE Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Monday that the Office of the Attorney General has secured a prison sentence for Lolita Begay-Yazzie as a result of her guilty plea to one count of fraud in excess of $20,000, a second degree felony, and one count of Medicaid Fraud for Failure to Retain Documents, a fourth degree felony.
Begay-Yazzie defrauded New Mexico’s Medicaid program of more than $445,000.
The court sentenced Begay-Yazzie to five-and-one-half years in the Department of Corrections, suspending three years, meaning Begay-Yazzie will serve a period of two-and-one-half years in prison.
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