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TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Gadsden County woman has been arrested on charges she defrauded the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $7,000. Marsha Perkins Hunter turned herself over to authorities this morning in Leon County.

Investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit were contacted by an anonymous caller who indicated that Hunter, 38, was billing the Medicaid program for services she never provided. The investigation revealed that Hunter billed Medicaid for supported living coaching services that were never provided to two Leon County Medicaid recipients. Supported living coaching services provide training and assistance to adults with developmental disabilities that enable these individuals to reside on their own.

Hunter is charged with two counts of Medicaid provider fraud, a third-degree felony. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The case is being prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office for the Second Judicial Circuit.