Nurse pleads guilty in Medicaid fraud case

A nurse in has pleaded guilty to illegal remunerations related to a broader Medicaid fraud case in the state. Christine Hicks Thomas, 62, of Murfreesboro, faces up to five years in prison as well as $25,000 in fines and three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. As part of her plea agreement, she has agreed “to surrender her n ursing license, to surrender any interest she has in companies that bill the government for…
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