Texas Border Project
US Lawyers’ Office in the Southern District of Texas
McAllen, Texas – A 48-year-old Edinburg resident has been detained on charges of aggravating health care fraud and identity theft in connection with a scheme that fraudulent the Texas Medicaid program.
The indictment alleges that it caused the filing or submission of a fraud claim to Medicaid for a prescription that the doctor had never prescribed because it was sealed when he was arrested back on April 15th. According to the claim, between 2018 and 2024, the claim caused Medicaid payments to more than $2 million. Herrera is said to have used her doctor’s personal information without consenting to Bill Medicaid for the prescription.
Herrera is charged with a six-count health care fraud, each with a maximum sentence of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000. She is also facing a worsening identity theft of six counts. If convicted, she faces a mandatory two years of two years that must be provided in succession to other sentences imposed.
Department of Health and Human Services – Inspector General (OIG), FBI, Health and Human Services Board – OIG, Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Management Unit, and Texas Department of Insurance conducted the investigation. US lawyers Sarina S. Dipiazza and Theodore Parran III are indicting the case.
The indictment is not evidence, but a formal charge of criminal conduct. Defendants are presumed to be innocent unless they are found guilty through a legitimate process of law.
Updated April 17, 2025
