According to Attorney General Derek Schmidt, an Arkansas City man has been ordered to repay more than $2,500 to the Kansas Medicaid Program after being found guilty of Medicaid fraud.

21-year-old Tyresse Jasper Boyd Hardiman pleaded guilty in September 2019 in Cowley County District Court to one felony count of making a false claim to the Medicaid Program. Cowley County Chief Judge Nicholas St. Peter ordered Hardiman to repay $2,501.92 to the Kansas Medicaid Program and also sentenced Hardiman to 24 months probation with an underlying prison sentence of 14 months.

An investigation by the attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division revealed that Hardiman submitted false claims to the Medicaid program that between January 2018 and October 2018 he had provided in-home care to a Medicaid beneficiary.