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   Attorney: Arc of Anchorage under investigation for alleged Medicaid fraud   
      
      
   By Paula Dobbyn | Posted: Tue 3:53 PM, May 17, 2016  |  Updated: Tue 4:51 PM,   
   May 17, 2016   
                
   An Anchorage social services agency that assists the disabled is under   
   investigation for alleged Medicaid fraud.   
      
   "I can confirm that the Arc of Anchorage is under investigation,” said   
   Cynthia Ducey, an Anchorage attorney who is representing the agency. “I can   
   confirm that the Arc is cooperating fully and is committed to fair and   
   accurate billing."   
      
   Ducey would not comment further.   
      
   Clara Sanderson, senior public relations officer for the Arc, referred   
   questions to Ducey. Sanderson said the agency was preparing a public statement.   
      
   Quinten Warren, an investigator with the Office of Special Prosecutions in the   
   attorney general’s office, said he could not confirm or deny if a criminal   
   investigation of the Arc is taking place. The Department of Law would only   
   comment if charges are    
   filed, Warren said.   
      
   Medicaid fraud costs American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each   
   year. Fraud, waste and abuse represents about 10 percent of payments made by   
   Medicaid, according to Alaska’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which operates   
   out of the Office of    
   Special Prosecutions.   
      
      
   For Alaska, that equates to reduced money available to provide medical   
   services to needy Alaskans, according to the unit.   
      
   Earlier this month the owner of an Anchorage-based personal care attendant   
   agency was sentenced to 12 months in prison plus ten years of probation for   
   Medicaid fraud.   
      
   According to prosecutors, 51-year-old Cecelia DeLeon Sobier, owner of C Care   
   Services LLC, was also ordered by a judge to pay $15,000 to the State of   
   Alaska and more than $18,000 to Wells Fargo bank in restitution.   
      
   Since October 2013, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has filed criminal charges   
   on 139 individuals, including three corporations, according to the attorney   
   general's office.   
      
   The unit has resolved 100 cases with 92 criminal convictions and 8 civil   
   resolutions resulting in the person being barred from billing Medicaid as a   
   condition of settlement   
      
   More than $4 million payable to the Medicaid program and $525,000 in criminal   
   fines payable to the state have been collected.   
      
      
   http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Arc-of-Anchorage-under-investig   
   tion-for-alleged-Medicaid-fraud-379876661.html   
      
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