{"id":649881,"date":"2026-03-12T08:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:14:16","slug":"charges-home-health-care-agency-owner-defrauded-medicaid-out-of-600k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649881\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges: Home health care agency owner defrauded Medicaid out of $600K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Paul home health care agency owner is facing charges after investigators say she defrauded Medicaid out of more than $600,000. <\/p>\n<p>Gertrude Kemunto Mongare, 34, was charged on Wednesday with six counts of theft by false representation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, Mongare defrauded Medicaid of $611,056.81 from March 2021 to August 2025 through her home health care agency, B&amp;G Caring Angels.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/D12D3AC0-C062-47E7-8ECE-C4579F0C1B27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3879965\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Mongare is accused of submitting reimbursement claims for companion care, respite care, night supervision, overnight services, homemaking services and more \u2014 services which investigators say were never recieved.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint goes on to say that Mongare regularly transferred money from the B&amp;G Caring Angels account to her personal bank account, which she used to buy plane tickets and Uber Eats.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumb\"><strong>For Related Stories:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/charges\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charges<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/fraud\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fraud<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/medicaid\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medicaid<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/ramsey-county\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsey County<\/a><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Paul home health care agency owner is facing charges after investigators say she defrauded Medicaid out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":649882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[35],"tags":[34474,820,210,1141,1142,3170,63670,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-649881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-charges","tag-fraud","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-medicaid","tag-ramsey-county","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116215209562543183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}