Santila Terry was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services for fraudulently billing the state agency.
Chicago, IL (STL.News) Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Thursday that a south suburban woman, Santila Terry, prosecuted by the Attorney General’s office, was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services for fraudulently billing the state agency for speech therapy services that were never provided.
Santila Terry, 51, of Flossmoor, Illinois, was sentenced to four years of felony probation and ordered to pay restitution after being found guilty in December 2018 of identity theft, theft, theft by deception, and vendor fraud.
“Millions of Illinois children, individuals with disabilities, and working families rely on the Medicaid program to access needed health care services,” Raoul said. “It is unconscionable an individual would knowingly defraud that program out of the vital and limited resources available to provide these services. I will continue to partner with law enforcement and state agencies to hold perpetrators of Medicaid fraud accountable.”
The Attorney General’s office alleged in its initial indictment that Terry billed Medicaid through her business “Special Therapy Care Chartered —
