The former owner, office manager, and business manager of a St. Louis County, Missouri-based home healthcare company were sentenced to prison time for healthcare fraud. Doriann Morgan, 59, was sentenced to two years in prison. Thalisa Walton, 47, and Barbara Jackson, 59, were sentenced to a year and a day in prison. They have already paid $790,000 of the $910,000 they agreed to repay as part of a civil settlement. The final payment of $120,000 is due in March. All three pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. They admitted that from roughly January 2018 to August 2021, they conspired to submit $552,659 in fraudulent reimbursement claims to Missouri’s Medicaid program for personal care services that were never provided. The three submitted fraudulent claims for personal care services purportedly provided by Jackson for a woman who did not live in Missouri and received no services, their plea agreements say. They also submitted claims for providing services for clients at times when their own social media posts showed them doing something else.
