BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — The owner of a Pennsylvania home care agency will spend a month in prison for a Medicaid fraud scheme, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Friday.

Gavin Mata, 36, will also be on parole for 22 months and five years of probation after he pled guilty to felony Medicaid fraud and perjury charges, Sunday said.

Mata was the owner of A Part of Our Family Home Care Agency, which now has a “404 Error” when you go to its website.

Sunday, in a statement, said Mata went through “great lengths” to carry out the scheme.

“The defendant went to great lengths to perpetrate this fraud scheme, falsifying records and reporting bogus hours for employees without their knowledge,” Attorney General Sunday said. “Medicaid Fraud takes money and resources away from Pennsylvanians in need of care.”

Sunday said false information was submitted in claims between 2020 and 2022 to Medicaid by Mata, such as hours or services that were never performed. Sunday mentioned some patients never signed up for, or got care from, Mata’s company.

When Mata was eventually brought to testify about his payroll records, he lied, Sunday said.

Restitution in the amount of $235,778 will also be paid by Mata for collecting reimbursement.

The Attorney General’s Office investigation included a presentment from the 47th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury. The case was prosecuted by Senior Deputy Attorney General Eric Stryd of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Section.