Attorney General Masto Announces Sentencing of Two California Women for Medicaid Fraud at Washoe Valley Behavioral Healt
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Attorney General Masto Announces Sentencing of Two California Women for Medicaid Fraud at Washoe Valley Behavioral Healt — Criminal
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Reno, NV - Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto today announced that Suzanne Pindell, 64, of Fork of Salmon, California, and Terra Shepherd, 44, of Chico, California, and the behavioral health company they owned, HealTherapy of Nevada, were each sentenced today for a misdemeanor offense of submission of false Medicaid claims for a scam that double billed for equine facilitated therapy.
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