Medicaid Fraud • Sufficiency and Weight of Evidence • Intent • Exclusion of Subsequent Fraud by Relative

Commonwealth v. Biesecker, PICS Case No. 17-0704 (Pa. Super. April 26, 2017) Bowes, J. (18 pages).

Commonwealth proved mens rea element of Medicaid fraud, theft by deception, and receipt of stolen property charges, where uncontradicted evidence showed that appellant billed for caregiver services to an individual at same times when another provider was providing services to the individual. Judgment of sentence affirmed.