Indiana woman pleas guilty in Hopkins Co. Medicaid fraud case

Investigation into Medicaid fraud in Kentucky has led to the guilty plea of an Indiana woman.

According to Attorney General Russell Coleman, 56-year-old Sylvia Townsend-Marlow of Corydon, Indiana entered a guilty plea to a total of seven felonies, including two counts of presenting fraudulent claims to defraud Kentucky’s Medical Assistance program and five counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree.

According to an investigation by the AG’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control, Townsend-Marlow received nearly $71,000 in payments from Medicaid by submitting fraudulent timesheets to Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

The fraudulent claims happened over a two-year period.

The judge sentenced Townsend-Marlow to five years’ probation and ordered her to pay restitution in the amount of $70,838.91.