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<\/a>Imagine the emotional difficulty of arranging in-home hospice care for a terminally ill family member. Now imagine learning after the fact that your loved one had been cared for not by a nurse but by a medical imposter.<\/span><\/p>\nThat is exactly what happened in more than 200 cases in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area over nearly a three-year period when a woman who had stolen the identity of a registered nurse used those credentials to gain employment with multiple hospice companies.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cJada Necole Antoine had absolutely no nursing experience or medical training,\u201d said Special Agent Brian Marlow<\/strong>, who investigated the case out of the FBI\u2019s Dallas Division. \u201cThe thought of having someone who is not a nurse taking care of your parent or loved one is not only criminal, it is morally outrageous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThe Bureau\u2019s investigation began in 2013 as a result of a local traffic stop in Texas. <\/span><\/p>\nWhen the patrol officer asked for identification, Antoine produced her own driver\u2019s license, and it turned out there was a warrant for her arrest on another matter.<\/span><\/p>\n She also had other identification in the car\u2014including documents belonging to the victim nurse\u2014along with a number of medical records. <\/span><\/p>\nThat information was forwarded to the Medicare Fraud Strike Force team in Texas, which consists of the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Texas State Attorney General\u2019s office, and local law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n The strike force is part of a larger, nationwide effort aimed at combating health care fraud and abuse.<\/span><\/p>\nAs the strike force team began to investigate the paperwork found in Antoine\u2019s car, \u201cwe learned about the hospice companies Antoine had been associated with,\u201d Marlow said. \u201cIn all, we found eight different hospices she had worked for using the nurse\u2019s stolen identity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nDuring the time she was carrying on this fraud\u2014from approximately January 2009 through April 20, 2012\u2014Antoine was paid more than $100,000 from the various companies who unwittingly employed her. <\/span><\/p>\nShe had direct responsibility for patient care and submitted documents to the hospice companies that falsely indicated care was provided by a registered nurse. <\/span><\/p>\nThose false statements caused the hospice companies to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid totaling approximately $800,000.<\/span><\/p>\nAntoine victimized 243 hospice patients by depriving them of legitimate health care from a properly licensed individual, Marlow said. <\/span><\/p>\nCourt records show that Antoine treated patients who were mentally ill, comatose, asleep, and otherwise unresponsive to sound and touch, and in those instances, she made her own assessments of the patient\u2019s pain and comfort levels, digestive function, and breathing.<\/span><\/p>\nShe also had access to patients\u2019 medical charts and detailed personal information, which, said Marlow, \u201cwas greatly concerning because of her history of identity theft crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWith investigators on her trail, Antoine fled Texas but was apprehended in Georgia in 2014 and charged with fraud and identity theft. <\/span><\/p>\nShe pled guilty, and this past August, a federal judge sentenced the 34-year-old to four years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cMany of the patients she allegedly cared for were completely at her mercy,\u201d Marlow said. \u201cNow that she is behind bars,\u201d he added, \u201cshe will not be able to victimize anyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBI BLOG Oct. 8, 2015 Imagine the emotional difficulty of arranging in-home hospice care for a terminally ill family member. Now imagine learning after the fact that your loved one had been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[648],"tags":[1741,1740],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-fake-hospice-nurse","tag-fb-i"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>Imagine the emotional difficulty of arranging in-home hospice care for a terminally ill family member. Now imagine learning after the fact that your loved one had been cared for not by a nurse but by a medical imposter.<\/span><\/p>\n