Sikirat Adunni Brown, 59, of Upper Marlboro, Md., pleaded guilty to defrauding the DC Medicaid program out of more than $340,000. Brown admitted that, at various times between January 2014 and June 2020, she worked as a personal care aide for at least eight different home health agencies. The home health agencies employed her to assist DC Medicaid beneficiaries in performing activities of daily living, such as getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing, and eating. Brown was supposed to document the care that she provided to the Medicaid beneficiaries on timesheets and then submit the timesheets to the home health agencies, which would in turn bill Medicaid for the services that she rendered. In her guilty plea, Brown acknowledged that between 2014 and 2020, she caused the DC Medicaid Program to issue payments totaling $343,539 for services that she did not provide. As part of her scheme, she submitted false timesheets to different home health agencies claiming that she provided 20 hours or more of personal care aide services. She also claimed to provide services when she was traveling outside the DC metropolitan area. She paid kickbacks during the scheme to at least one beneficiary. She also acknowledged that she claimed to provide services to one beneficiary during the COVID-19 pandemic even though that beneficiary said she did not.
