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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Tampa personal care assistant has been arrested on charges that she fraudulently billed the Florida Medicaid program. Robin Prescott allegedly billed the Medicaid program more than $5,000 for services she never provided. She was arrested by law enforcement with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began investigating Prescott after receiving a complaint from a disabled individual who claimed Prescott had been reimbursed by Medicaid for personal care services she never provided. After reviewing copies of Medicaid records and interviewing the disabled person and family members, investigators determined Prescott, 50, had been falsely billing Medicaid for a period of time from January 2007 through March 2007.

Prescott was taken to the Hillsborough County Jail. She will be charged with one count of Medicaid fraud and one count of grand theft, both third-degree felonies. She will be prosecuted by the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office for the 13th Judicial Circuit and if convicted, could face up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.