A 32-year-old Maryland woman has been indicted on fraud and theft charges after prosecutors accused her of billing the District's Medicaid program for more than $109,000 in services she never actually provided. Camille Aba worked as a community support worker for Family Wellness Center from 2022 to 2023, and government allegations say she falsified records tied to a Medicaid beneficiary who was later identified in a news story about a man accused of shooting two people on a D.C. bus.
According to the WJLA, the U.S. Attorney's Office says Aba was indicted for allegedly billing the District's Medicaid program for more than $109,000 in services she did not provide. Aba provided support services to Medicaid beneficiaries who were clients of Family Wellness Center, and prosecutors allege she submitted falsified claims through the organization while failing to provide services to a man and other beneficiaries.
Notes Allegedly Changed After Bus Shooting Report
Government allegations say Aba claimed she had provided services to the man just days before the shooting, then later changed her notes to say she had not spoken with him at all. The man was identified in a Washington Post story about a man accused of shooting two people on a D.C. bus, though the station's report does not independently detail the shooting itself or confirm further information about the man's identity beyond that reference.
The D.C. Department of Health Care Finance began investigating Aba, according to the same government allegations, and the case was ultimately probed by both the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the D.C. Office of the Inspector General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The D.C. Department of Health Care Finance's Medicaid Program Integrity division is tasked broadly with prevention, investigation, auditing and recovery of improper Medicaid payments, and with cooperating with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and other law enforcement agencies, per the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance.
Count Totals Differ Between Reports
Aba faces 38 total counts of fraud and theft, including 36 first-degree felony counts. Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Monroe is prosecuting the case, the station's report notes.
No trial date has been set, but a felony status conference is scheduled for Dec. 16. The case adds to a broader pattern of Medicaid fraud enforcement actions surfacing around the country this year, including a $49 million mental-health crisis-services fraud scheme in Virginia that led to the indictment of Mikia Antoneice Noble, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Where to Report Suspected Medicaid Fraud
Residents who suspect Medicaid fraud, waste or abuse in the District can report it through the D.C. Office of the Inspector General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which lists a phone line at 202-727-2540 for such reports. The office also offers subscriptions for updates on its Medicaid Fraud Control Unit reports for those tracking enforcement activity in the District.
Similar cases elsewhere this year underscore how often such schemes center on claims for services that were allegedly never delivered. In Missouri, an adult day-care provider was accused of a $1.47 million Medicaid fraud scheme built on claims for care that was never provided, according to the FBI. No further details about Aba's defense, legal representation, or any statement from Family Wellness Center were available in the reporting reviewed for this story.
