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   Posted October 29, 2016 12:45 am    
   By Sandy Hodson Staff Writer    
   Psychologists, ex-employee testify in Medicare fraud case   
      
        
   The psychological reports on troubled children looked typical, except for the   
   forged signatures, three psychologists testified Friday in the Medicaid fraud   
   trial for the top executives of TWI Counseling Inc.    
      
   While two of the psychologists had done contract work for TWI, a private   
   company that provided intensive family intervention services for children in   
   danger of losing their homes, a third, Edward Orr of the Atlanta area, never   
   worked for TWI. But two    
   psychological reports bearing his forged signatures were found at the TWI   
   corporate office in Vidalia, Ga., when investigators searched it and storage   
   facilities in Vidalia and Augusta in December 2012.    
      
   In 2015, a Richmond County grand jury returned an indictment against TWI Chief   
   Executive Officer Carl "Tony" Wardlaw, his wife and company Chief Financial   
   Officer Stephanie Wardlaw, his sister and top lieutenant Stephanie McCloud,   
   and his sister-in-law    
   and director of human resources Sarah Wardlaw.    
      
   Three other former employees – Bryan Holmes, Eric Johnson and Janelle   
   Lambert – pleaded guilty in the case and are serving probation terms.   
   Derrick Kimble was also indicted, but the charges against him were dismissed   
   in April.    
      
   The Wardlaw family members have pleaded not guilty in Richmond County Superior   
   Court to one count of conspiracy and 15 counts of Medicaid fraud. Their   
   lawyers told jurors in opening statements this week that if there was any   
   fraud, it was done by    
   employees in the Augusta and Atlanta offices.    
      
   Testimony in the trial will continue Monday as prosecutors work to convince   
   the jury that the Wardlaw family members on trial conspired to defraud the   
   Medicaid program of more than $3 million by falsifying documentation submitted   
   for payments.    
      
   Kimble testified Friday that he opened the TWI offices in Augusta and Atlanta   
   and worked for Tony Wardlaw until late 2011, when they parted ways. When he   
   left, he forwarded work emails to his private account, emails shown to the   
   jury Friday as he    
   testified about discovering numerous psychological reports of children had   
   been tampered with and fraudulently created. The diagnoses for two children   
   were changed to reflect conditions that Medicaid would pay for, he testified.    
      
   Psychologist Deborah Wilson testified Friday that she and Kimble were called   
   to the Vidalia corporate office in early 2011 before an audit. They were told   
   they needed to help prepare clients' files that were missing documents   
   necessary to be in    
   compliance with Medicaid regulations. Wilson admitted she created case notes   
   for patients' files at that session, which she knew was wrong, she testified.    
      
   http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2016-10-29/psycho   
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