Aides at Hackensack health agency charged with collecting $18,000 in Medicaid for work never done

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two former employees of a Hackensack-based home health agency were charged in separate indictments today with trying to scam Medicaid for services they never provided.

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Jerry DeMarco

06/02/2014 9:30 p.m.

Naum Lavnevich, 56, of Oakland, collected $5,614 on 178 bogus claims while working an unrelated job — and even when he was out of the country, the indictment returned in Trenton alleges.

Meanwhile, it says, 52-year-old Anatoli Rountsev of Totowa got $12,598 for 463 false reports,

Both were certified homemaker home health aides for Confident Care Corporation, which has 10 satellite offices throughout New Jersey, as well as offices in Florida, state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said.

Lavnevich and Rountsev were both charged with health care claims fraud, Medicaid fraud and theft by deception.

Deputy Attorney Jordan Mamorsky presented the case to the state grand jury. Detective Kylie Mattis and Analyst B’leia Williams coordinated the investigation.

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