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NC: Guidance counselor steals students’ info in $400K Medicaid scam

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Dissent

Carla Field reports:

A man who was a public school guidance counselor and who owned a counseling service admitted in court Wednesday to using information about some of his elementary school students in a $400,0000 Medicare scam.

Joseph Frank Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to health care fraud.

Korzelius, who owns Western Carolina Counseling Services, and who was a guidance counselor at Tryon Elementary School in Polk County, used the information of students and their siblings to submit billings for psychotherapy services that were never provided.

Read more on WYFF.

h/t, Doug Levin

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