The Kansas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Unit recently prosecuted six medicaid fraud cases, recouping more than $42,600 in restitution from fraudsters, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced yesterday. One of those was a Garnett man. Fifty one year-old Kevin Matney was charged with making false claims. He agreed to pay $4,202 in restitution as part of a settlement agreement.
The Attorney General’s office says their top priority is the protection of crime against one of the most vulnerable groups of our population – the elderly and disabled. They say the prosecutions should put medicaid fraudsters on alert, saying if you hurt Kansas’s most vulnerable, they will prosecute. The unit investigates and prosecutes medicaid fraud cases statewide to stamp out corruption and abuse of medicaid dollars and services.
