Mainecare Program Integrity Unit News Today

Hospital system, physicians to pay $37 million to settle federal allegations; pharmacist pleads guilty to $180+ million fraud scheme; more

Read Article PORTLAND — Two Lewiston men who came to that city as Somali refugees were sentenced in federal court Friday for their respective roles as interpreters in a health care fraud scheme that bilked MaineCare out of more than $1.8 million through a Lewiston office providing mental health and substance abuse counseling services. At a daylong hearing in U.S. District Court, Chief Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Abdirashid Ahmed, 41, to two years in prison, plus three years of supervised rel...