In March 2026, Francine Sims Super, a 64-year-old office manager and Medicaid compliance director at Life Touch LLC, a substance abuse treatment facility in Kinston, North Carolina, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $15.3 million in restitution to North Carolina Medicaid plus $373,000 to the IRS after pleading guilty to seven federal counts including health care fraud, money laundering conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, and tax evasion. Federal investigators determined that for nearly six years Sims Super had paid more than $1 million in Walmart and Target gift cards to drug-addicted patients in exchange for the use of their Medicaid identification numbers, which she then used to bill the state for fabricated counseling sessions, phantom telehealth appointments, and impossible volumes of comprehensive clinical assessments billed at $430 each. ––– Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.