TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Miami-Dade Police Department today arrested a targeted case manager for defrauding the Medicaid program out of more than $27,000. According to the investigation, Arkyn Mena, 45, falsified the progress notes of six different Medicaid recipients to make it appear that the defendant provided services never performed. Submitting these falsified progress notes caused fraudulent billing to the Medicaid program.
Mena faces one count of organized scheme to defraud and one count of Medicaid fraud, both second-degree felonies. If convicted, Mena faces up to 30 years in prison. Attorney General Bondi’s Office of Statewide Prosecution in prosecuting this case.
