A Maryland woman was indicted on 38 fraud and theft counts, accused of getting the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance to pay her $109,000 for services she never provided.
Camille Aba, 32, worked for Family Wellness Center as a community support worker between 2022 and 2023. Her job involved providing services to the Medicaid beneficiaries that came to the center as clients, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said.
Ms. Aba is accused of submitting false claims to the center and of not providing services to the beneficiaries, thereby costing the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance $109,000.
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The department began investigating Ms. Aba following a February 2023 shooting on a Metro bus and inside the Potomac Avenue Metrorail station that left Metro employee Robert Cunningham dead, and a subsequent Washington Post article about the suspect Isaiah Trotman, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
The department wanted to know, based on the article, whether he received Medicaid services from one of its providers.
Ms. Aba, according to an affidavit, initially said in a service note that she had met with Mr. Trotman before the incident, only to go back and revise it to say that she had not met with him after the incident occurred.
Investigators then determined after looking into more of Ms. Aba’s billing records and service notes that she had wrongly billed the department for other services as well, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Ms. Aba, who is charged with 18 counts of first-degree felony fraud, 18 counts of first-degree theft, one count of first-degree misdemeanor fraud and one count of second-degree theft, is scheduled for a felony-status conference on Dec. 16, though no trial date has been set.
Mr. Trotman has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial in July, according to court records, and his trial is currently scheduled to begin in January 2028.
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