Temitope Oluwa-Bakare Ogunbiyi, 49, of Bowie, Maryland, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defrauding the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program out of more than $1 million. Following her prison term, she will be placed on three years of supervised release. In addition she was ordered to pay $1,071,247.12 in restitution and $575,462.03 in a forfeiture money judgment. Rose Asang Gana, 40, of Greenbelt, Maryland, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for defrauding the program out of more than $400,000. She also will be placed on three years of supervised release following her prison term. She was ordered to pay $441,234.64 in restitution and $257,503.31 in a forfeiture money judgment. Ogunbiyi worked as a personal care aide for 18 home health agencies at various times between January 2014 and September 2018. Gana worked for nine health agencies at various times between October 2013 and December 2018.
Ogunbiyi and Gana were supposed to document the care they provided to the Medicaid beneficiaries on timesheets and then submit those timesheets to the home health agencies, which would in turn bill Medicaid for the services rendered. Between January 2014 and September 2018, Ogunbiyi caused the DC Medicaid Program to issue payments totaling $1,071,247.12 for services that she did not render. Between October 2013 and December 2018, Gana caused the DC Medicaid Program to issue payments totaling $441,234 for services that she did not render. As part of their individual fraud schemes, both women paid kickbacks to beneficiaries and submitted false timesheets to different home health agencies claiming to have provided personal care aide services that they did not provide.
