Maryland Woman Indicted for Defrauding D.C. Medicaid Program

Defendant Accused of Fraudulently Billing Over $62,000 in Services

WASHINGTON (May 30, 2025) - Anna W. Makoye, 37, a Maryland resident, was arraigned today in Superior Court on ten counts of first-degree fraud and ten counts of first-degree theft related to fraudulent billing submitted to the District’s Medicaid program. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro and Daniel W. Lucas, Inspector General for the District of Columbia.

Makoye was indicted on May 21, 2025, by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on charges of first-degree fraud and first-degree theft. These are all felony offenses, carrying a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years.

According to court documents, Makoye was employed by a District Mental Health Rehabilitation Service (MHRS) provider as a community support worker (CSW).  MHRS provides for diagnostic and assessment services, counseling, medication, intensive day treatment, and crisis or emergency services.  A CSW provides community support services by helping consumers learn and improve basic life skills, such as managing their medication, increasing social skills, and learning how to apply for housing or a job.

The indictment alleges that from August 2023 through February 2024, while employed by the District MHRS provider, Makoye engaged in a scheme to defraud the District’s Medicaid program by submitting encounter notes for community support services she did not provide and overbilling for services claimed to have provided to District Medicaid beneficiaries. Through this scheme, it is alleged that Makoye caused the District government and its Medicaid program to pay over $62,000 for CSW services she did not render and overpayment for services she claimed to have provided.

This case is being investigated by the D.C. Office of the Inspector General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Major Crimes Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.  It is being prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Emmanuela Charles, on detail from the D.C. Office of the Inspector General.

An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.