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Las Vegas health worker to pay $15,300 in Medicaid fraud case

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 | 4:58 p.m.

CARSON CITY – A health care worker in Las Vegas has been placed on five years of probation and ordered to make a $15,300 payment for her guilty plea to Medicaid fraud.

Margaret Childs, 58, was hired by the state’s Medicaid program to care for low-income individuals in their home. The state Attorney General’s Office said she never showed up at these homes, yet she collected payment.

She pleaded guilty to a gross misdemeanor offense of failure to maintain adequate records in a case going back to 2008.

District Judge Kenneth Cory ordered her to perform 120 hours of community service but suspended a 60-day jail sentence.

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