A Charlotte behavioral health services provider has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly defrauding the South Carolina Medicaid Program (SC Medicaid) and falsely obtaining COVID-19 relief funds, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The 16-count federal indictment charges Ashley Nicole Cross, 41, of Charlotte, with healthcare fraud, making false writings relating to a healthcare matter, making false statements relating to a healthcare matter, promotion money laundering, wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, and wire fraud affecting a financial institution.
