Florida Speech Pathologist Arrested for Falsifying Medicaid Claims

September 5, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced the arrest of a Palm Beach County woman charged with stealing more than $20,000 from the Florida Medicaid Program. Amy Heather Spielman was taken into custody by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit after investigators revealed a scheme of submitting false billing claims to the Medicaid program for speech pathology services never rendered.

The investigation was initiated after the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit received information from the mother of a Medicaid recipient. Spielman, 32, worked as a Medicaid speech pathologist in Broward County. Authorities allege she submitted hundreds of reimbursement claims to the Medicaid program for speech therapy to child Medicaid recipients, although witnesses confirmed the treatments were never provided.

Spielman is being held at the Broward County Jail. She is charged with one count of organized fraud, a second-degree felony, and one count of Medicaid fraud, a third-degree felony. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison and a $15,000 fine. The case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.

Source: Florida Attorney General

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