Two key players in what federal prosecutors have described as a massive scheme to defraud Georgia’s Medicaid program are slated to plead guilty to charges that they negotiated kickback payments to prenatal clinics that steered undocumented Hispanic women to local hospitals for deliveries of their babies.

Federal authorities on July 23 filed criminal information bills charging Gary Lang, the former CEO of what is now Clearview Regional Medical Center in Monroe, and Tracey Cota, the former CEO and CFO of now-defunct Hispanic Medical Management Inc., with conspiring to pay or receive illegal kickbacks to boost the number of deliveries paid for by Medicaid. The criminal information bills were filed after Lang and Cota waived indictment.

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