Transportation company settles in Medicaid fraud case

A Westchester-based transportation company has settled with the state attorney general’s office for $400,000 after failing to produce documents that it delivered services for Medicaid recipients.

James Herring, owner of 4J”™s Transportation Inc., was investigated by the Pearl River regional Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is part of Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman”™s office, from January 2005 to August 2011. The fraud unit found that Herring charged Medicaid, the low-cost health program run jointly by federal and state governments, for services that had not been documented during that period.

Herring will repay Medicaid $316,991 for the false billings, the attorney general’s office said, in addition to $84,072 in interest.