Area Man Sentenced on Federal Healthcare Fraud-Related Charge

Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois James Porter announced that an area man has been sentenced in US District Court in Benton on a fraud-related charge.

30-year-old Terry L. Waeltermann, Jr. of Mulberry Grove, Pocahontas and Vandalia was sentenced on a charge he engaged in a scheme to steal from a health care program. The district court sentenced Waeltermann to two years of probation with the first four months to be served in home confinement. He was also ordered to pay $6,660.75 in restitution to the Home Services Program.

Court records indicate that Waeltermann, also known as Waelterman and Waeltermen, admitted that he had submitted false and fraudulent bills in relation to his alleged performance of personal assistant services in the Home Services Program, a Medicaid waiver program designed to allow individuals to stay in their homes instead of entering a nursing home. Waeltermann admitted to falsely billing the program in 2013 when he purportedly rendered personal assistant services to a customer when, in fact, he had not because he had moved away and forged the customer's signature.