NH couple indicted on Medicaid fraud charges

Aug. 14—A New Hampshire couple has been indicted by a Merrimack County Grand Jury on charges of theft and Medicaid fraud, the Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday.

Tucker Bean, 31, and Felisha Cunningham, 29, are both charged with a class A felony count of theft by deception and two class B felony counts of Medicaid fraud. Bean is scheduled for a hearing in Merrimack County Superior Court on Sept. 25, while Cunningham is scheduled to appear Oct. 17.

In August 2023, the New Hampshire Department of Justice's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit received information that Bean and Cunningham were allegedly both submitting fraudulent requests for mileage reimbursement, with the couple collecting more than $15,000 in the process.

According to the Attorney General's Office, an investigation by the unit determined that between April 2023 and January 2024, Bean allegedly submitted mileage reimbursement requests using his parents' home address in Conway for trips to medical treatment in Franklin.

Also between May 2023 and August 2023, Cunningham allegedly submitted mileage reimbursement requests using an address in Plymouth for trips to the same treatment center in Franklin.

Neither lived at the Conway or Plymouth addresses they used for their mileage reimbursement requests, officials said.

"Rather, between April 2023 and January 2024, Mr. Bean and Ms. Cunningham lived together, primarily in the towns of Franklin and Tilton, and notwithstanding that they carpooled together to the Franklin treatment facility, they each made separate claims for mileage reimbursement on numerous occasions between May 2023 and August 2023," the Attorney General's Office said in a release.

The maximum penalty on the class A felonies is 7 1/2 to 15 years in state prison and a $4,000 fine. The maximum penalty on the class B felonies is 3 1/2 to 7 years in jail and a $4,000 fine.