Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Tuesday afternoon announced that nine providers have been charged with defrauding the Medicaid program out of more than $3 million.
The office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit filed the charges.
One of the nine charged — Peter Jason Meilahnm, a Duluth psychotherapy provider — is accused of submitting about 27,000 false claims for services not rendered, totaling more than $2.2 million in fraud.
Nineteen charges were filed against a Roseville home care agency owner and three other defendants for billing $675,000 for services not rendered and not eligible for reimbursement.
“The many charges we are filing today allege various amounts of fraud, but even one dollar stolen in defrauding a government program is too much,” Ellison said in a news releasae. “It outrages me that some people steal taxpayer money that we…
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