A grand jury indicted a Maryland woman on Wednesday on dozens of charges related to billing the District’s Medicaid program for services she did not provide while working at a behavioral health center in Southeast D.C.
Camille Aba submitted false claims to Family Wellness Center, where she worked in a support role from 2022 to 2023, leading to $109,000 in fraudulent medicaid payments, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia alleges. She faces 38 counts of fraud and theft, including 36 first-degree felonies.
The D.C. Department of Health Care Finance first probed Aba’s work during an investigation following a February 2023 shooting on a Metro bus. The department looked to determine if the suspected shooter had received help from a D.C. Medicaid provider before the shooting, according to court filings. An initial query showed Aba had notes from a session with the suspect in January and billed D.C. Medicaid for service. The day after the shooting, she changed her notes to omit details of the services she said she provided, according to a court affidavit.
A preliminary investigation found evidence Aba billed D.C. Medicaid for services she did not provide and used the same language in multiple case files, the affidavit said.
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The D.C. Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia are conducting a joint investigation. Aba is scheduled for a status hearing in D.C. Superior Court on Dec. 16. No trial date has been set.
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