Hastings man sentenced for Health Care fraud

A Hastings man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to Health Care fraud, officials said. 

United States Attorney Joe Kelly and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson announced Tuesday that Randy Kirby, 61, of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

Kirby was formerly a mental health therapist in Hastings and operated a mental health practice called Transitions Counseling.

Between September 2013 and September 2016, Kirby submitted false claims for reimbursement to Nebraska Medicaid for services that he could not show had occurred.

Nebraska Medicaid paid Kirby $133,639.57 for those services.

As a result, Kirby was indicted on nine counts of Health Care Fraud.

He pleaded guilty to one count of Health Care Fraud in October 2018.

Kirby was also ordered to pay restitution of more than $130,000.

He will be on supervised release for three years following his prison term.