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Settlement Resolves Allegations of Medicaid Fraud
BALTIMORE, MD (March 17, 2025) – Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced today
that Aqua Vision Care, LLC agreed to pay $143,336.00 to resolve allegations that it violated the
Maryland False Health Claims Act by submitting or causing claims to be submitted to the
Medicaid Program for vision services that were not provided. Kelechi Mezu Nnabue is a licensed
optometrist who provided vision services at Aqua Vision and who certified that the services
billed to the Medicaid program were furnished, medically indicated, and necessary to the health
of the patients.
The State’s allegations relate to claims submitted by Aqua Vision for eye exams. Aqua Vision,
located in the 1000 block of Reisterstown Road in Pikesville, billed Medicaid monthly, and
sometimes several times a month for an eye exam for the same recipients. Medicaid covers a
maximum of one optometric examination per year for recipients younger than 21 years and one
optometric exam every two years for recipients 21 years and older, unless time limitations are
waived by the Program, based on medical necessity.
The amount paid in restitution represents $71,668.00 for vision care services that were not
provided, as well as a civil penalty of $71,668.00.
Attorney General Brown thanked the Medicaid Fraud and Vulnerable Victims Unit, particularly
Assistant Attorney General Catherine Schuster Pascale, Senior Investigators Gordon Carew and
Shannon Beatty, and Senior Fraud Analyst Todd Sheffer for their work on this matter.
The Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud and Vulnerable Victims Unit
receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
under a grant award totaling $6,845,828 for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2025. The remaining 25
percent, totaling $2,281,939 for FY 2025, is funded by the State of Maryland.
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