Eagle woman gets 37 months for embezzling at Idaho nursing facility, defrauding Medicaid
Karina Renee Moore, 48, of Eagle, has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for health care fraud after pleading guilty in January.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Moore to serve three years of supervised release after she is out of prison and to pay $611,860.86 in restitution, according to a press release sent Friday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to court records, between January 2010 and December 2016, Moore embezzled money from residents of Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, a skilled-nursing facility in Boise — where she was employed from August 2007 to December 2016 — and defrauded Social Security and health care programs to the tune of a little more than $600,000.
Moore was employed as the office manager at Shaw Mountain, and employees there called law enforcement on Dec. 1, 2016, after discovering checks that showed she had embezzled $23,805.66, the news release said. That investigation led to the discovery that she had been defrauding Medicaid and other health programs.
Moore used multiple schemes to cover up her fraud, according to the release, after raiding the nursing home’s resident trust accounts, stealing payments to them, and fraudulently billing Medicaid for services covered by other health care benefit programs.
Finally, Moore collected and misused the Social Security checks of a deceased resident, the release said.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, Boise Police Department and Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General.
