A southern Indiana woman has pleaded guilty in Hopkins County Circuit Court to defrauding Kentucky’s Medicaid program out of nearly $71,000.
Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Tuesday that 56-year-old Sylvia Townsend-Marlow of Corydon was convicted on seven felony counts connected to defrauding Kentucky’s Medicaid program. He says investigators with the Attorney General’s Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control determined that Townsend-Marlow obtained nearly $71,000 in Medicaid payments by submitting fraudulent timesheets to Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services over two years.
According to the Attorney General’s office, Townsend-Marlow pled guilty in Hopkins County Circuit Court to two counts of presenting fraudulent claims to defraud Kentucky’s Medical Assistance Program, as well as five counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, all Class D felonies. She was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay $70,838.91 in restitution.
Assistant Attorney General Michael Brophy prosecuted the case on behalf of the Commonwealth.
