Kentucky ambulance service accused of lying to get payments from Medicare, Medicaid

Managers at an ambulance service in Breathitt County defrauded taxpayer-funded health plans by submitting false bills, a federal grand jury has charged.

The grand jury indicted Arrow-Med Ambulance; owner Hershel Jay Arrowood; his wife, Lesa Arrowood, who handled billing; and Terry Herald, who was a manager at the company.

The four are charged with one count of conspiring to commit health care fraud and 14 counts of aiding and abetting each other to submit false bills from September 2012 to August 2015.

They allegedly billed Medicare and Medicaid for transporting people for dialysis and other treatment when it wasn’t medically necessary for them to go by ambulance.

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