Six business owners indicted over transport of Medicaid patients

YOUNGSTOWN — A federal grand jury has indicted the owners of six businesses that transport patients in vans equipped for wheelchairs and charged them with health care fraud.

William J. Edwards, acting U.S. attorney for the northern district of Ohio, said the 22-count indictment charges the six with mail fraud, wire fraud, health care fraud and conspiracy to commit those same offenses in connection with the transportation of Medicaid beneficiaries in specially designed vehicles called ambulettes.

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