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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has reached a civil settlement with a Tampa company which provides personal care assistance, companion services and supported living services. The settlement resolves allegations that an employee of We Care, Inc. improperly billed the Florida Medicaid program for services never provide to mentally disabled Medicaid recipients. The fraudulent billing resulted in a loss of more than $41,000 from the Florida Medicaid program.

Investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began investigating the company after receiving a complaint from a disabled adult who reported that he had not received the services described on his explanation of benefits. Authorities discovered more than $41,000 worth of billing fraud which had been committed by an employee, who also stole more than $10,000 from a victim’s savings account. The employee was arrested and charged criminally for his actions.

Under the civil settlement reached with the Attorney General’s Office, We Care will reimburse $41,636 to the Agency for Health Care Administration. In addition to the civil settlement, We Care reimbursed the victim of the theft $10,000.

A copy of the settlement with We Care is available online at: http://myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/WF/MRAY-7CQL6N/$file/WeCareSettlement.pdf.