CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — Three Clay County individuals are among soon-to-be 20 arrested in a $5 million Florida Medicaid fraud scheme, according to a Facebook post from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.
On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the arrests, as the scheme was “led by Jose Enrique Hernandez Fernandez,” in which he is accused of operating a nonemergency medical transportation service that billed Medicaid for thousands of trips never provided, according to a news release.
“These fraudsters operated a non-emergency medical transportation service that was supposed to help patients receive care,” Moody said in the release. “Instead, they billed Medicaid for thousands of trips never provided and inflated the mileage for the trips actually completed – in all, causing a loss to this taxpayer-funded program of more than $5 million.”
The release states that the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and the Columbus Police Department of Columbus, Georgia, arrested the 18 people with two currently who are still at large.