Woodbridge Home Health Care Business Owners Indicted For Fraud

The owners of have been indicted for health care fraud after allegedly submitting many claims for Medicaid reimbursement for services they never provided, reported Neil MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 

Irvine and Aisha King were each charged Thursday with 22 counts of health care fraud, two counts of aggravated identify theft, and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. If found guilty, each count of health care fraud could mean a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. Each count of aggravated identify theft could yield a penalty of two years in prison. And each count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud could have a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

"According to the indictment, the Kings owned and operated Bright Beginnings Healthcare Services, a business that provided in-home personal and respite care and private duty nursing services to Medicaid-eligible individuals," MacBride's statement read. "From at least March 2008 through June 2011, the Kings allegedly defrauded Medicaid by, among other things, submitting false claims to Medicaid for services that were not provided, providing fabricated documentation in connection with an audit, and instructing an employee to lie to Medicaid about claims billed by Bright Beginnings."

The Kings also allegedly told an employee to persuade the mother of a patient to lie to Medicaid about the false claims and allegedly requested another patient's parent to sign blank Medicaid time sheets that were later used to bill Medicaid for services that had not been performed.

"The Kings are also accused of using – without lawful authority to do so – the name, date of birth, and insurance identification number of a patient on at least two occasions on claims seeking reimbursement from Medicaid. The indictment seeks at least $624,155 in forfeiture as alleged proceeds of the fraud," MacBride continued.

The indictment is not a conviction, and the Kings have not been found guilty of any of these charges.