Kansas Attorney General's Office
TOPEKA – A southeast Kansas man has been ordered to repay the Kansas Medicaid program more than $1,200 after pleading guilty to fraud charges.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said William Carl Morris II, 37, of Altamont, was sentenced in Labette County District Court on one count of submitting a false claim, statement or representation to the Kansas Medicaid program. Labette County District Judge Fred W. Johnson sentenced Morris to pay $1,276.95 in restitution and to serve 12 months of supervised probation.
Investigators for the attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division determined that Morris submitted false claims that he was providing personal care attendant services to his mother, a Medicaid beneficiary. Morris stated dates that he allegedly provided the services, but investigators determined that his mother was in fact in another city at the alleged time.
Kobach said two other individuals also were recently sentenced in unrelated cases:
●Carrie Elizabeth McPhail, 56, of Saline County, was sentenced on Feb. 13 on one count of mistreatment of a dependent adult and one count of Medicaid fraud. She was ordered to pay $1,807.96 in restitution and serve 36 months of supervised probation.
●Lisa Gail Hall, 61, of Jewell County, was sentenced on Feb. 14 on one count of possession of hydromorphone and one count of obstruction of a Medicaid fraud investigation. She was sentenced to 12 months of probation.