Licensed Therapist Indicted for Allegedly Billing Medicaid for Non-Existent Child Counseling

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced that a licensed professional counselor who worked with children with autism was indicted today on more than 40 criminal counts related to her alleged submission of reimbursement claims to Medicaid for in-home counseling and therapy services she did not provide.Stephanie Fleming, 38, of Lyndhurst, Bergen County, was named in a 43-count state grand jury indictment. The indictment charges multiple counts of second-degree health care claims fraud, third-degree Medicaid fraud, and fourth degree forgery. It also charges a single count of second-degree theft by deception because Fleming received actual Medicaid reimbursement totaling more than $9,000.