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Kansas woman ordered to pay $40,000 in Medicaid fraud case

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita woman has been ordered to repay the Kansas Medicaid program over $40,000 for committing Medicaid fraud while she was a care attendant.

The Wichita Eagle reports 59-year-old Joyce Ann Spencer was also sentenced to two years of probation Friday. She had pleaded no contest to one count of making a false claim to Medicaid for billing the program for work she did not do between May 2009 and October 2013.

According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Spencer claimed she was working for three different Medicaid patients at the same time.

Schmidt said Spencer has also been banned from working for any program funded by federal health care dollars.

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