Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is announcing the arrest of a speech-language pathologist for defrauding Florida Medicaid. Kristin Marie Stiggleman, a therapy provider in Hillsborough County, inflated hours by billing for services not provided and misappropriating more than $5,000 from the taxpayer-funded program. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office assisted in arresting Stiggleman who is charged with Medicaid provider fraud and grand theft. Stiggleman worked as a licensed speech-language pathologist, tasked with the assessment and treatment of children with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. An investigation by Attorney General Moody’s MFCU revealed that between March 2020 and September 2021, Stiggleman inflated hours by billing for services not provided on numerous occasions. Stiggleman billed for services even when personally canceling sessions, when children discontinued services, or when children were unavailable for services due to hospitalization—stealing more than $5,700 of public funds in the process. Stiggleman faces one count of Medicaid-provider fraud and one count of grand theft, both third-degree felonies.
