Del. Transportation Provider Grounded for Fraud

Delaware Attorney General M. Jane Brady announced that Stephanie Showell, owner and operator of TIG Transportation was sentenced by Judge Richard Stokes in Superior Court recently, to a 3-year prison term which was suspended for one year of home confinement.

Following the home confinement, the defendant will serve a 9-year period of probation. Showell also was sentenced to pay triple damages in restitution to the Delaware Medicaid Program, along with penalties and costs of the investigation for a total monetary penalty of $17,681.61.

Showell was convicted on Aug. 12, 2004 of five counts of Felony Health Care Fraud in a jury trial in Sussex County Superior Court.

The State alleged that TIG Transportation overcharged the Delaware Medicaid program for medical transportation and escort services provided to Medicaid recipients. Showell also is alleged to have charged the Medicaid program for transportation she provided to her family members.