A federal judge has ordered a Corinna woman to pay back money she fraudulently received from the state’s MaineCare program using false billing information.

April McKinney, known professionally as April Taylor, 47, must pay $13,087.62 in restitution to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, which administers MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program. She was also sentenced to three years of probation and fined $2,500.

McKinney pleaded guilty in April 2023 and surrendered her counseling license on Monday through a consent agreement.

According to court records cited by the U.S. Department of Justice in a news release, from April to December 2020, McKinney falsified therapy appointment details and session notes and used the bogus records to bill MaineCare.

Ethan Andrews is the night editor. He was formerly the managing editor at The Free Press and worked as a reporter for The Republican Journal and Pen Bay Pilot.