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July
20, 2005
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Office
of The Attorney General
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Peter C. Harvey,
Attorney General
Division
of Criminal Justice
- Vaughn L. McKoy, Director
Office of the Insurance Fraud
Prosecutor
- Greta Gooden Brown, Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor
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Rachel
Sacharow
609-984-1936
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Middlesex
County Man Ordered to Pay More than $135,000
for Role in Medicaid Scam
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TRENTON
- Division of Criminal Justice Director
Vaughn L. McKoy announced that a Middlesex
County man has been ordered to pay $136,000
in fines and restitution for his role
in a Medicaid fraud scam.
According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Greta Gooden-Brown, Andrew Stoveken, 55,
Westover Way, Edison, Middlesex County,
owner and operator of Acoustics Hearing
Aid Center, Easton Avenue, New Brunswick,
Middlesex County, was ordered by Middlesex
County Superior Court Judge Frederick
P. DeVesa to pay $136,000 in fines and
restitution and to serve one year probation.
Stoveken was sentenced after pleading
guilty to a criminal Accusation filed
by the Division
of Criminal Justice - Office
of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. The
Accusation charged Stoveken with Health
Care Claims Fraud. Stoveken paid the $136,000
penalty at sentencing.
At the April 15 guilty plea hearing, Stoveken
admitted that between February 2001 and
August 2003, he submitted thousands of
dollars in false health care claims to
the Medicaid Program representing that
he had provided 32 hearing aid batteries
to Medicaid recipients. An investigation
by the Division of Criminal Justice -
Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
determined that Stoveken provided only
16 batteries to Medicaid patients but
billed the Medicaid Program as if he had
provided 32 batteries. In addition, Stoveken
admitted that he permitted a person who
was not a Medicaid provider to bill the
Medicaid Program utilizing Stoveken’s
Medicaid provider number. The investigation
further determined that the person paid
Stoveken to use his provider number, and
Stoveken billed Medicaid for $126,000
in services the other person apparently
provided.
State Investigator Christine Barclay and
Deputy Attorney General Erik W. Daab were
assigned to the investigation into this
case. DAG Daab represented the Division
of Criminal Justice at the July 15 sentencing.
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