Luis Angel Lozada, of Clayton, was sentenced Wednesday, December 15, 2021 to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina. Lozada pleaded guilty to the charge on September 18, 2020. As part of sentencing, Lozada was also ordered to pay $1,130,137 in criminal restitution to the North Carolina Fund for Medical Assistance.
According to court documents and other information presented in court, between 2016 and 2020, Lozada conspired with multiple individuals to defraud the North Carolina Medicaid system by submitting over $1 million in false and fraudulent claims for the reimbursement of behavioral health services. Medicaid. a federally funded health care benefit program that helps pay for medical-related services for low-income individuals and their families, is administered in North Carolina by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Benefits.
In March 2016, Lozada formed a behavioral health business in North Carolina known as Cornerstone Family Services Group (“Cornerstone”). The company was headquartered in Zebulon initially, later opening offices elsewhere in the district.
“Cornerstone submitted high-volume Medicaid claims for services that were never rendered; the false claims relied on stolen beneficiary and clinician information that was incorporated into the fraudulent...
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