Personal care home owner posed as nurse for 3 years
For three years, the owner of a personal care home, told patients, their families and state agencies that she was a registered nurse.
Madeline Laruy signed documents and submitted them to Georgia Medicaid for reimbursement, Attorney General Sam Olens said Friday.
Only Laruy wasn’t a nurse. The owner of a Henry County personal care home entered a non-negotiated guilty plea to one count of Medicaid fraud and one count of false statements and writings earlier this week in Henry County Superior Court, Olens said.
On Monday, Henry County Superior Court. Judge Wade Crumbley sentenced Laruy to 180 days in prison, followed by four and a half years probation. Laruy was also ordered to pay $61,346.07 in restitution for Georgia Medicaid payments fraudulently obtained, Olens said.
Laruy, 68, owned and operated Walnut Creek Manor in McDonough, a personal care home that housed both Medicaid recipients and private individuals. Medicaid regulations require recipient files to be reviewed and signed by a nursing supervisor on a monthly basis, Olens said in an emailed press release Friday. Laruy would sign these documents falsely claiming to be an RN, and then submit claims to Georgia Medicaid for improper reimbursement.
She admitted to fraudulently signing documents as a supervising nurse and to altering nursing credentials which were provided to members of the Department of Community Health during an on-site audit.
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