An Edmonds adult care home operator who court documents say billed the state for providing services to a dead client was charged Monday with first-degree theft and two counts of filing false Medicaid statements.
Teresita Magtira Morse, 50, billed the state for $4,900 between August and November 2002, even though her client died Aug. 25 of that year, according to documents filed by the state attorney general’s office.
She signed a contract with the state in 2001 to provide services to clients as an adult family home. The attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which investigates fraud by Medicaid service providers, probed reports that the client had died, court papers say.
Documents say Morse continued to submit invoices claiming to have performed services for 2 1/2months after the woman’s death.
Morse will be summoned to court for arraignment.
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