PARSONS — A Parsons woman has been ordered to repay $19,704 to the Kansas Medicaid program after pleading no contest to eight charges of fraud.

According to the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, Ginger Wilson, 45, pleaded no contest in February to multiple charges of conspiracy to make false statements to the Medicaid program, making false statements to the Medicaid program and related unlawful acts.

Judge Jeffry Jack today ordered Wilson to repay the money in addition to a suspended sentence of 21 months in prison. Wilson also was ordered to serve 24 months probation.

The crimes were discovered during an investigation by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division into home health care billings by several employees and independent care attendants who used Southeast Kansas Independent Living Center (SKIL) as their payroll agent.

So far, 13 defendants have been found guilty of charges stemming from the investigation, officials said.

They have been ordered to repay more than $116,000. Charges are pending against one other defendant.

Assistant Attorney General John Bryant is prosecuting the cases.