The owner of several rehabilitation centers in Pike, Floyd, and Harlan Counties was indicted in federal court earlier this week on Medicaid fraud.

Eugene Sisco III of Pikeville was charged with devising a scheme to get money from health care providers.

Sisco operated Renew Addiction Treatment Clinic, LLC. The business was an outpatient substance abuse disorder clinic that served patients in Floyd, Harlan, and Pike counties.

In July, Sisco was arrested for a DUI by the Pikeville Police Department and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and possession of an open alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle.

It was recently discovered that since May 2016, Sisco would cash charge patients for services and bill the Medicaid program for the same services.

When questioned, Sisco would lie and say services such as counseling or urine drug testing were not covered by Medicaid.

Federal search warrants were also executed on five of Sisco’s businesses in February.

Sisco is accused of obtaining more than $3,000,000 from patient cash payments.

Sisco now faces up to 20 years in prison, for wire fraud, and has to hand over any property that was obtained by the illegally made funds and a fine of $250,000, and up to three years of supervised release.

Sisco also faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 for the healthcare fraud charge. This also includes up to three years of supervised release.