Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced the convictions of two Arkansans for Medicaid fraud.
Jennifer Casey, formerly of Benton County and currently of Pulaski County, pleaded guilty in Pulaski County Circuit Court in October and was recently sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay a $750 fine and court costs. She has already repaid $9,000 in restitution to the Medicaid Program Trust Fund.
Two College of Public Health faculty members have secured a $250,000 two-year contract to create a collaborative network between the faith community and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for the advancement of diversity in research.
Keneshia Bryant-Moore, PhD, RN, associate professor; and Tiffany Haynes, PhD, assistant professor, received the funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced the conviction of a Ouachita County man for Medicaid fraud. Al Dodds pleaded guilty in Pulaski County Circuit Court, and Judge Wendell Griffin sentenced Dodds to pay $200,000 in restitution to the Arkansas Medicaid Program. If at any time he willfully violates the conditions of his suspended sentence, Dodds will spend up to 20 years in prison.
Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined.
By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients will walk into the realization of those ideas.
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