Two Sedgwick County residents have been found guilty of Medicaid fraud. 52 year old Gretta Elaine Smith, of Wichita, pleaded guilty in Sedgwick County District Court to one felony count of Medicaid fraud. The case stemmed from an investigation by the Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division, which revealed that between March 2018 and May 2018, Smith submitted false claims to the Medicaid program asserting that she provided in-home personal care attendant services to beneficiary 65 year old Joe Ross Mitchell while Mitchell was in fact incarcerated on unrelated charges. Upon being paid by the Medicaid program for the false claims, Smith then put some or all of the $2,794.44 on Mitchell’s jail commissary account.

Both cases are being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Ed Brancart of Schmidt’s office.