Edinburg pharmacist facing judge in $2 million Medicaid fraud scheme

An Edinburg pharmacist was indicted Tuesday on six counts of healthcare fraud that amounted to $2 million and six counts of aggravated identity theft, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release.

She was set to make her initial appearance Thursday morning before the U.S. Magistrate Judge Juan Alaniz.

Cynthia Ann Herrera’s indictment was unsealed Tuesday after she was arrested, during which she told authorities she had submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid for prescriptions that a doctor had not prescribed.

The 48-year-old Edinburg resident, submitted false claims using the personal information of doctors without their consent to bill Medicaid for prescriptions between 2018 and 2024, which amounted to more than $2 million in Medicaid payments, according to the release.

Herrera is currently facing a 10-year maximum sentence and up to a $250,000 fine for each of her six counts of healthcare fraud, as well as facing six charges of aggravated identity theft.

If convicted, Herrera is facing a mandatory two years that will be served consecutively to any other sentence.

The USAO said the case was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General, the FBI, Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Texas Department of Insurance.

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