The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office has reached a settlement with a former mental health practitioner accused of submitting false claims for Medicaid reimbursement. The agreement with Joyce Boyd of Johnson Lake is for her to pay the state $150,000. The state, in its civil lawsuit, had accused Boyd of submitting 722 Medicaid claims totaling more than $106,000 between 2014 and 2017. Another $2,700 in claims were not eligible to be reimbursed because, according to her own records, they overlapped with services provided to other clients on the same date and time. The state also alleges more than $2,200 in claims were submitted for services not rendered.
Boyd voluntarily surrendered her mental health practitioner licenses and master social worker license following her conviction in Dawson County District Court of Attempted Violation of the Fraudulent Insurance Act. She was sentenced to a period of 24 months probation and ordered to pay restitution.
