Health-care worker indicted on fraud charges

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s attorney general says a former employee of a managed-care organization has been indicted in Franklin County on workers’ compensation fraud charges.

Attorney General Richard Cordray said Friday that Christine Lynn Blair, a former employee of Columbus-based Gates McDonald Health Plus, is accused of instructing her staff to submit falsified return-to-work data to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.

Cordray said the data made it appear that workers whose claims were managed by the company returned to work the same day they were injured.

The data is used to give managed-care organizations a report card on how quickly they helped injured workers return to work. Good scores can improve the company’s business.