PITTSBURGH, Pa. (EYT) — The owner of a residential facility for intellectually disabled adults in Penn Hills has pleaded guilty in federal court to health care fraud after admitting to years of misconduct tied to Medicaid billing and resident care, federal authorities announced Monday.
Kelley Oliver-Hollis, 61, of East Hills, entered the plea before U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman IV. She acknowledged responsibility for the main charge and 39 additional offenses listed in a superseding indictment filed last month. These included making false statements about health care services, concealing facts related to those services, money laundering, and misusing Social Security benefits in her role as a representative payee, according to a statement from Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti.
Oliver-Hollis operated Serenitycare LLC, a home and community-based services provider under Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Waiver Program. Between 2018 and 2023, she submitted false claims for services never provided, including staffing homes with caretakers that did not exist, according to prosecutors. The program requires facilities to maintain appropriate staff-to-resident ratios, but investigators said Oliver-Hollis repeatedly failed to meet those requirements.
Besides fraudulent billing, federal authorities said Oliver-Hollis allowed the group homes to deteriorate to where they were cited multiple times for unsanitary and unsafe living conditions. The extent of the neglect included both...
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