In addition to serving five years in prison, Ms. Lee was ordered to pay $3.98 million in restitution, pay a $1 million fine and be placed on three years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment, according to the release. If Ms. Lee would violate the terms of the release in this time, she would be ordered to serve additional time in prison.
According to court documents, on March 19, 2009, Ms. Lee pleaded guilty to one count of a superseding indictment admitting that she and workers of A New Beginning of New Orleans conspired to commit healthcare fraud. Ms. Lee, the owner/operator of ANBNO, a Medicaid provider that made claims for Personal Care Services it claimed to have provided to Medicaid recipients, solicited mothers with children who had Medicaid benefits to apply for PCS, according to the release.
Ms. Lee admitted that after Medicaid approved the PCS applications, false documentation containing employees’ time sheets and daily schedules, which detailed the services rendered to Medicaid child recipients, was created by employees of ANBNO and parents of the Medicaid recipient children. She further admitted that Medicaid paid approximately $3.98 million as a result of the fraudulent claims made by ANBNO and its employees, according to the release.
Read the release about Akasia Lee.
