The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced that Patricia Armstrong, 32, of Coppell, TX pleaded guilty on November 1 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
The U.S. Attorney said Armstrong admitted to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of over $60 million by causing those programs to be billed for hospice beneficiaries who were ineligible for hospice care, were fraudulently recruited to hospice care, or who were not provided billed-for services.
She now faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, the U.S. Attorney said. The FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated the case.