Warner Robins woman convicted of Medicaid fraud. She gets years in prison
A Warner Robins woman will serve seven years in prison after admitting to defrauding Georgia Medicaid Program of over $5 million, according to court proceedings on Thursday.
Elizabeth Sue Ivester, who operated Liberty Medical, a durable medical equipment supplier, was sentenced by Judge Marc Treadwell Thursday after she pleaded guilty to one count of Medicaid fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Oct. 2, 2025.
She admitted to submitting at least 77,095 false claims for medical equipment that was never dispensed. To submit the claims, she falsely represented the identity of the prescribing physician and used the recipients’ Medicaid identification numbers. As a result, Georgia Medicaid paid $5.4 million for 7,684 recipients.
The scheme occurred between June 13, 2014, and Sept. 30, 2022. P. MacKenzie Miller, Ivester’s attorney, said that at first the violations were an accident due to a billing error. But then Ivester exploited the Medicaid program.
In tears, Ivester acknowledged that she made a mistake and testified in court that she was sorry for the harm and loss of trust that resulted from the scheme.
Treadwell sentenced Ivester to a total of seven years in prison — five years for her Medicaid fraud charge and a mandatory two-year sentence for the aggravated identity theft charge. She’ll have to pay back the millions of dollars she took from Georgia Medicaid, Treadwell ruled.
Her case was the result of the Department of Justice and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s effort to prosecute Medicaid fraud, officials said previously. That effort resulted in 324 people being charged. It included 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals in 50 federal districts nationwide, who were accused of stealing over $14.6 billion, according to the DOJ.
