Commonwealth v. Mimless

Armstrong, CJ.

The defendant, a psychiatrist, was convicted by a Superior Court jury of two counts of larceny over $250 in violation of G. L. c. 266, § 30, and 219 counts of Medicaid fraud in violation of G. L. c. 118E, § 40. The fraud counts were of two types: (1) billing and receiving payment for services which could not have been performed because he was on vacation; and (2) billing and receiving payment for services performed on days for which, adding together the times required for the services allegedly performed, the billings represented more than twenty-four hours of services.1 The…