Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced charges against 15 people implicated in a scheme of Medicaid fraud totaling over $275,000. The sweep was part of a broader, nationwide crackdown on health care fraud, described as the 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, and led by a contigent of federal and state partners such as the Department of Justice, the FBI, HHS-Office of Inspector General, and various Medicaid Fraud Control Units, as reported by the Attorney General’s Office.
Alongside the Attorney General's declaration, there came a reminder that the accused parties are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise. According to the statement obtained by the Attorney General's Office, one noteworthy case involved Darrell Carr of Missouri, who was criminally charged for submitting claims for personal care services never rendered, thereby fraudulently acquiring $37,819.39 from Medicaid.
In similarly brazen acts of alleged deception, Tammy Stanley-Barr and Diamond Stanley were charged with filing false claims for personal care services, even though Stanley-Barr, requiring care, was employed as a caregiver and was fully capable of performing the tasks for which she claimed to need assistance. The Missouri Attorney General's Office statement elaborates that the two fraudulently extracted $26,976.34 from Medicaid by clocking in for services while one or the other was actually at work.
Jessie Liggins, Bertina Burris-Liggins, and Rhonda Johnston have been charged with enrolling Medicaid recipients for services that weren’t needed and then collecting payments as personal assistants without providing any care. Johnston, who owns the Medicaid provider company, did not stop the scheme, which led to $85,759.87 in Medicaid funds being taken. Missouri Attorney General Bailey’s office is working with Arvids Petersons from the Missouri Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and local prosecutors on the case.
