On Aug. 4, an Alaska grand jury indicted the owners of three assisted living homes that offer residential care and support services in the Anchorage area.
Kyle Bates, Molly Bates and Peyton Love were indicted for multiple counts of scheme to defraud, theft in the first degree, medical assistance fraud and a single count of falsifying business records. The Bates have also been charged with criminal Impersonation in the second degree.
In total, Kyle and Molly Bates and their co-defendants are alleged to have fraudulently billed $14,694,800.47 to the Alaska Medicaid Program between July 2019 and Nov. 2025.
According to the Alaska Dept. of Law, during this time, the Bates owned two group homes (Heritage Assisted Living Home LLC and Heritage Home LLC) which they ran with the assistance of Peyton Love. In 2024, Kyle and Molly created a new LLC, Alaska Life Group Home.
A joint investigation by the FBI and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit found that many of the services billed by Heritage Assisted Living Home and Heritage Home were allegedly not provided, not adequately staffed, or not adequately documented.
Subsequent investigation, with the assistance of the Alaska Department of Health, Division of Senior and Disability Services, also discovered that the entities were allegedly operating without an approved program administrator.
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Investigators discovered that after the former program administrator quit and moved out of state in 2019, Molly and Kyle Bates allegedly impersonated her and misrepresented her employment to the Alaska Department of Health. Operations allegedly continued without an approved program administrator until Nov. 25, 2025. During this time, Kyle and Molly Bates allegedly forged signatures, took training courses in the former administrator’s name, submitted documents claiming the former administrator was still an employee and lied on their certification applications to Medicaid.
Nationally, Medicaid fraud continues to be a widespread problem. According to the most recent national statistics from HHS Office of Inspector General, fiscal year 2025 saw nearly $2 billion in combined criminal and civil recoveries, 1,185 convictions (856 for fraud; 329 for patient abuse or neglect), 674 civil settlements and judgments, 900 individuals/entities excluded from federal health care programs as a result of convictions, $1.3 billion in criminal recoveries and $706 million in civil recoveries.
Citizens with information about suspected medical assistance fraud, patient abuse or neglect are encouraged to use the Alaska Medicaid Fraud Control Unit online complaint form or to contact the unit at (907) 269-6279.
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Yes!!! Nail em!
Its terrible how out of the baby boomer generation they wrecked Americas economy with get rich quick at GenX, Millennials, GenZ and GenAlphas expense.
What’s equally terrible is GenX, Millennials robbing baby boomers of their wealth during the time they need the most help and care excessively charging baby boomers monthly rent for staying in these caregiver homes that aren’t even giving them excellent care.
Stupid government
I / we worked hard for that money that was taken from our paychecks and issued fraudulently to this family. I demand a stiff sentence, one in which they won’t smell, taste, nor feel the joy of freedom again!
Nice as it would be to see them and every tainted goof in their orbit thoroughly wrecked and impoverished by the public servants we pay handsomely in hope that justice might prevail, Steve, U.S. Attorney for Alaska Michael Heyman carries himself like a limp-wristed sissy looking for a simple “win” with a confession to some small portion of crimes committed and a guilty plea in exchange for reduced charges.
We should be able to reasonably count on a negotiated and agreed upon couple years in Club Fed at most with comfy accommodations for the guilty, half-ass efforts to recover only the easily surrendered ill-gotten gains, and more self-congratulatory posing for our additional expenditures to wrap it up and quietly discard it like an especially dirty diaper.
The Garrett Elder et al crime spree and Heyman’s mishandling of it should tell us everything we need to know about what’s likely to happen with these monsters.
Wow!
Just a drop in the bucket, but better than nothing I guess. I give it a couple of years at the most, people will forget about this sort of thing due to the latest rage bait, and the enforcement will quietly die off and the show will go on.