NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that a North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing the state's Medicaid program for more than $6 million of urine-based drug tests through a substance abuse treatment nonprofit and a consulting services business.
The US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of North Carolina said that Jasmine Hoyle has pleaded guilty to charges of healthcare fraud and money laundering. According to court documents she was the owner and president of both the nonprofit organization The Ultimate Sacrifice and the private company Harvest Focused & Consulting Services.
The US attorney's office said in court documents that between May 2020 to July 2024, Hoyle obtained Medicaid beneficiaries' identification numbers through fraudulent means and used that information to submit false claims for presumptive and definitive drug tests that were not provided. The false claims included 97 tests and 30 office visits for a North Carolina Medicaid beneficiary who had never heard of either of Hoyle's organizations, prosecutors said.
The US attorney's office said that Hoyle pocketed the proceeds. She is scheduled for sentencing on July 31.