TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge has handed down a three-year prison sentence to a former chief executive officer of WellCare for his role in a plan to keep Medicaid money that should have been returned to the state.
U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. on Monday sentenced former CEO Todd S. Farha below the recommended federal sentencing guidelines.
Two other former executives, Paul Behrens, who served as WellCare’s chief financial officer, and William Kale, who was vice president of a WellCare subsidiary that was at the center of the fraud, each got lesser prison sentences. Behrens was handed a two-year prison sentence and Kale, one year and a day. Farha was fined $50,000, which the judge ordered to be paid immediately.
A fourth defendant, Peter Clay, was placed on probation.
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