A 45-year-old Lincoln woman will spend a year in jail for filing false claims with Nebraska Medicaid. Anzhela Solkan was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court on two misdemeanor counts of Theft by Unlawful Taking.
Solkan had worked through Nebraska Medicaid as a personal care service provider for her parents. Attorney General Mike Hilgers says an investigation of Solkan’s activity from November 2019 to early January 2020, including video surveillance, showed Solkan submitted personal care service claims to Nebraska Medicaid for services that she did not render because she was not at her parents’ location at the times that she claimed.
Solkan was originally charged with felonies for theft and fraudulently submitting false claims for payment to Nebraska Medicaid. The charges were reduced to misdemeanors on the condition that Solkan repay more than $10,000 in restitution to Medicaid for the false claims.