Ex-psychologist found guilty of stealing millions from Medicaid

MACON - A former psychologist with offices in metro Atlanta and Macon faces four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of stealing more than a million dollars from Medicaid. <br> <br> Thirty-eight-year-old Mark Sharpe was found guilty Friday in Macon. Prosecutors say he submitted one-point-six million dollars in false claims and pocketed the money. <br> <br> Sharpe was based in Macon but also had offices in Alpharetta, Griffin, Warner Robins, Decatur and Stockbridge. <br> <br> An investigation showed claims for as many as 13-hundred patients were submitted between June 1997 and June 2000 for services that were either not provided or were billed in excess of what was provided. <br> <br> Some of the false claims were for people who had never been patients at all. <br> <br> The state described Sharpe as a man who only cared about the bottom line, who drove a Corvette that was leased with money from the center&#39;s account and who lived in an eight-thousand-square-foot home described as a ``monster mansion&#39;&#39; in a suburb of Atlanta.

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