TOPEKA – 45-years-old Lupe Adela Mains, of Pretty Prairie is charged with one count of health care fraud and one count of mail fraud. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in 2007, 2008 and 2009 in Reno County.

The indictment alleges Mains engaged in a scheme to defraud the Kansas Medicaid Program by causing Medicaid to pay her for supportive homecare services to her sister that she in fact did not provide. It also alleges Mains submitted false claims to the federal Railroad Retirement Board in order to receive survivor disability benefits on behalf of her sister.

If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 10 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the Medicaid count and a maximum penalty of 20 years and a fine up to $250,000 on the wire fraud count.