A.G. Schneiderman Announces Arrest Of Brooklyn Medical Supply Company Owner And Staff In $3.2 Million Medicaid Fraud

NEW YORK - Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the indictment of Nkem Udeh, the owner of Advance Medical Supply, Inc., her brother, Humphrey Ude, the store's manager, two of her employees, Keva Johnson and Yolane Fouche, and the Brooklyn store on top grand larceny charges for fraudulently billing Medicaid over $1.7 million dollars and HealthFirst, a health insurer for Medicaid recipients, another $1.5 million. The company and its employees billed the state Medicaid program, both directly and through managed care, on claims they dispensed nearly a million units of a highly-specialized and expensive liquid pediatric nutritional formula for kids. In fact, the company did not dispense the expensive formula. If it dispensed anything, it dispensed over-the-counter nutritional supplement formulas, such as Pediasure. The defendants face up to 25 years in prison.

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