3 from Louisiana get sentenced in health care fraud schemes

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A district judge sentenced three people from Baton Rouge after they pleaded guilty to charges in health care fraud schemes, which involved getting drugs from pharmacies using fake prescriptions with stolen identities and fraudulent applications for federal benefits.

Acting U.S. Attorney Ellison Travis announced the sentencing of each person Thursday.

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• Kevin Stampley, 33, was sentenced to 104 months in federal prison.
• Kevan Hills, 32, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison.
• Asia Guess, 28, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.

The Department of Justice said all three admitted that they caused the submission of fake prescriptions for controlled substances to Medicaid and used Drug Enforcement Administration registration numbers and other information of several doctors and medical providers for the fake prescriptions.

Fraudulent applications for federal benefits programs seeking at least $293,498 were submitted. Federal pandemic assistance program fraud totaled $87,663.

According to the DOJ, Guess illegally sought at least $125,978 in federal benefits and obtained at least $15,859 in unemployment benefits from the Louisiana Workforce Commission and Maine Department of Labor.

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