Former employee at Lubbock counseling center sentenced for Medicaid fraud

A 36-year-old woman from Lubbock, Texas, Paula McNeal, who pleaded guilty in January 2016 to one count of health care fraud, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $104,088 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.McNeal, aka Paula Quigley and Paula Walker, was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on June 24, 2016.According to documents filed in the case, McNeal worked at New Hope Christian Counseling (NHCC) in Lubbock, and her duties included billing, submitting bills to Medicaid for services provided, receiving and opening mail, posting income, adjustments and receipts to counselors’ accounts, and making bank deposits.

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