A Memphis woman is accused of turning a nursing career into a costume role, with state investigators saying she posed as a nurse, cycled through more than 10 jobs, and billed TennCare along the way.
A Shelby County grand jury on May 7 indicted Lamonica Robinson Netter on TennCare fraud and impersonation charges after an investigation into those alleged jobs and billings. Netter faces one count of TennCare fraud, one count of theft of property valued between $60,000 and $250,000, and two counts of impersonating a licensed professional, according to investigators. She was arrested in early May and booked into the Shelby County Jail.
The indictment was returned on May 7, 2026, and Netter was arrested on May 8 and booked on a $50,000 bond, according to Action News 5. The station reports that investigators say Netter used multiple nurse license numbers to apply for and obtain more than 10 nursing positions from 2023 through September 2025.
According to a release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division, the case started with a September 2025 referral from the Tennessee Health Care Facilities Commission. Agents say they traced the alleged conduct to job applications that listed license numbers belonging to other nurses. The agency said Netter’s case was one of several state-level actions it brought after federal partners rolled out a national health care fraud sweep, according to TBI.
Part of a national sweep
The TBI said it announced its state charges following the Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, a multi-agency operation that charged hundreds of defendants and alleged billions in false claims, according to the HHS Office of Inspector General. That federal sweep has prompted state Medicaid-fraud units to mine data and pursue local referrals that surfaced during the larger investigation, HHS-OIG.
Local trend: TennCare probes
Shelby County has already seen a string of TennCare-related investigations this year. In one March case, a Memphis nurse practitioner was charged with dozens of TennCare fraud counts, according to Action News 5. State agents say the Medicaid Fraud Control Division often builds local cases off tips from TennCare’s program-integrity unit, professional licensing boards, and data-driven federal efforts.
What the indictment alleges
The indictment lists one count of TennCare fraud, one count of theft of property valued between $60,000 and $250,000, and two counts of impersonating a licensed professional, as outlined in the TBI release. Those remain allegations; Netter is presumed innocent unless and until she is proven guilty, and the charges will be decided in Shelby County criminal court, TBI.
The case is pending and will move through Shelby County criminal court, where future dates and hearings will be set through formal filings. Prosecutors have not yet released additional public documents beyond what appears in the TBI notice.
