MCPHERSON, Kan. — A McPherson woman has been found guilty on Medicaid fraud charges and ordered to repay restitution for illegally used taxpayer funds.
The Attorney General’s office says 35-year-old Katherine Leah Bohanon of McPherson was sentenced earlier this week in McPherson County District Court by Judge John Klenda on one count of making a false claim to the Medicaid program. Bohanon, who pleaded guilty to the charge in January, was ordered by Judge Klenda to pay $12,167 in restitution and sentenced to 12 months of supervised probation.
Bohanon was convicted of filing false claims to the Medicaid program from March 2018 and August 2019. Bohanon claimed to be providing services for a minor child, but was in fact often not even present with the child and was working as a paraprofessional at McPherson High School during the times she billed Medicaid.
The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant Attorney General Eve Kemple.