Mandan woman must pay nearly $76,000 for Medicaid fraud

A Mandan woman has been ordered to pay nearly $76,000 in restitution to the State of North Dakota, after pleading guilty to Medicaid fraud, a class B felony

Rebecca Anderson pleaded guilty in state District Court last November.

The announcement was made by North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley.

Anderson, a qualified service provider, was audited and found to have fraudulently over-billed on Medicaid care, including for services she did not provide between 2017 and 2019. 

Anderson also received a two-year suspended jail sentence, plus three years of supervised probation… and was ordered to pay $810 in court fees. 

The case was investigated and prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the North Dakota Attorney General’s office… with assistance from the State Department of Human Services’ Program Integrity Unit.