Registered nurse gets year in jail for stealing over $390,000 from Medicaid

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Anyanwu-Mueller

WHITE PLAINS – A private duty registered nurse was sentenced in Westchester County Court in White Plains to one year in the county jail after pleading guilty to felony grand larceny.
Collins Anyanwu-Mueller, 48, of Seymour, Connecticut, stole over $390,000 over a five-year period by submitting false claims for private duty nursing services that he never provided to severely disabled patients.
Prior to his sentenced by Judge Barry Warhit, Anyanwu-Mueller paid the state $25,000 and agreed to pay the remaining $367,954 in restitution owed.
An investigation by the state attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit found that between August 2010 and January 2015, Anyanwu-Mueller submitted claims for payment to Medicaid in which he falsely represented that he provided private-duty nursing services to two severely disabled Medicaid recipients.
His false claims included instances when the recipients were in the hospital, when another nurse provided the care, when he was in Europe, when he was caring for another Medicaid recipient, and for an extended period when he sent an unlicensed person to the recipient’s home but billed Medicaid as if he provided the care himself.
Both Medicaid recipients required around-the-clock care at their respective homes in New Rochelle and Pleasantville. 




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