The Knights of Ni in Alaska are facing several felony charges for over $500,000 in Medicaid fraud.
That's a lot of shrubberies!
Why they were named after a Monty Python reference? Who knows.
According to the Alaska Beacon, The Knights of Ni LLC is owned by Ryan Carroll who works as a care coordinator.
A care coordinator is someone who helps a Medicaid patient gain ‘needed medical, social and other services, regardless of the funding source for the services to which access is granted.'
Care coordinators usually work with patients who are disabled and cannot file their own paperwork, and they can be paid via the state-run medicaid plan if they file reports about the aid they've given.
However, Caroll's reports showed that he was scamming the system:
Documenting that he was providing monthly care coordination contacts to more than one client on the same date, time, but at different locations.
And investigators found it difficult to ascertain what he was doing when he did visit clients:
It was not clear whether Carroll was making any contact with his assigned recipients due to the lack of documentation to support his services.
Except in the case of one client, which kicked off the whole investigation in the first place:
According to the criminal complaint, the Department of Health received a message warning that Carroll ‘was having an inappropriate relationship with one of his … clients.'
There hasn't been a date set for his arraignment, nor a judge assigned to his case, so I wonder if it's too late for Carroll to change his company's name to The Knights of Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!
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