Anne Salvant and Michelle Timothee, a New York licensed practical nurse and her patient’s mother consecutively, were both arrested and charged with Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, for defrauding the New York Medicaid program of over $32,000. Salvant was additionally charged with 3 counts of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree and Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree.
Between October 2007 and May 2010, Salvant and Timonthee had allegedly conspired and acted on a scheme to defraud Medicaid. Salvant, a New York State licensed practical nurse who was assigned to care for Timonthee’s disabled son, has been purportedly submitting falsified nurses’ notes and time sheets to Accucare Nursing and Homecare to bill for her “work”.
However, investigations on Salvant revealed undercover video surveillance of Salvant’s absence from Timonthee’s home for the hours she billed Medicaid. Timonthee purportedly received a portion of Medicaid’s payment for her participation in Salvant’s scheme.
If convicted of all the charged counts, Salvant and Timonthee face more than 5 years in prison