Medical-transportation firm owner sentenced

BOSTON – The owner of a medical-transportation company in Webster, Mass., has been sentenced to a year and a half in jail and ordered to pay full restitution for defrauding the state’s Medicaid program of more than $470,000, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced last week.
According to a statement, Cynthia J. Keegan, 51, billed the program for services under the names of deceased individuals, and for other medical trips that were never provided. She pleaded guilty last month to seven counts each of larceny over $250 and filing false Medicaid claims.
Keegan was sentenced in Worcester Superior Court by Judge Janet Kenton-Walker to two and half years in jail, with 18 months to serve, and the balance of that sentence suspended for eight years. Keegan was also sentenced to eight years of probation and ordered to pay $477,658 dollars in restitution to the Mass. Department of Health and Human Services. Her company, Keegan Enterprises LLC, which was doing business under the name Cross Roads Trolley, was fined a total of $245,000. •

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