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OWNER OF COUNSELING SERVICE SENTENCED TO NEARLY 10
YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE, AFTER ADMITTING HE
DEFRAUDED MEDICAID OF MORE THAN $2 MILLION
DALLAS --- Tommy Clyde Ransom II, of Dallas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to 112 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas. He was also ordered to pay $2,084,562 in restitution. Ransom, 36, pled guilty earlier this year to one count of health care fraud. Following the sentencing hearing, Judge Solis remanded Ransom to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Ransom owned and operated a counseling services business in Dallas, called Crossroads Community Outreach Center, and was also an approved Texas Medicaid care provider. Ransom admitted that from March 2002 through May 2004, he and others defrauded Medicaid by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid for payment of counseling services allegedly provided to Medicaid beneficiaries through the School Health and Related Services (SHARS) program. Ransom’s fraud caused Medicaid to pay $2,084,562 in fraudulently obtained proceeds to his Crossroad’s account at Resource One Credit Union.
U.S. Attorney Roper praised the excellent investigative work of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Office - Medicaid Fraud Unit and said, “This case, and other similar cases that this office is prosecuting, are the culmination of a thorough investigation conducted by General Abbott’s Medicaid Fraud Unit. Our cooperative efforts with the Attorney General’s office are crucial to ferreting out and prosecuting these types of cases.” Roper continued, “These prosecutions should serve as a warning to all who would attempt to defraud our state’s Medicaid system that we will find them and they will pay the price.”
The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridget Eyler of the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
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