The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office announced the arrest of a Rock Hill woman on Medicaid fraud and false pretenses charges. Simone S. Reeves, 45, was detained earlier this week and booked into the Richland County Detention Center.
The arrest came after an investigation by the Attorney General’s Vulnerable Adults and Medicaid Provider Fraud (VAMPF) unit. According to the investigation, Reeves, a licensed professional counselor, allegedly filed fraudulent claims with the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the state’s Medicaid program.
Between February 2018 and May 2019, Reeves, who worked for H.I.S. Counseling LLC, was accused of submitting false timesheets. These documents claimed she provided more than $10,000 in behavioral health services to minor Medicaid beneficiaries, despite the fact that those services were never rendered.
The Attorney General’s Office will prosecute the case. If convicted of obtaining property under false pretenses (a felony), Reeves faces up to ten years in prison. The charge of medical assistance provider fraud is a misdemeanor punishable by up to three years in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Attorney General Alan Wilson stated that all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
