East Orange health center owner, employee charged in scheme to perform unlicensed medical procedures

Trenton, NJ – New Jersey authorities have charged two women with health care fraud and other crimes for allegedly performing medical procedures without licenses and billing Medicaid for thousands of dollars in false claims.

According to Acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport, Esney Davis-Sharpe, 63, of East Orange, and Nataliya Lushchak, 48, of Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, have been indicted on multiple counts, including conspiracy to commit health care claims fraud (second degree), unlicensed practice of medicine (third degree), health care claims fraud (second degree), and Medicaid fraud (third degree).

Investigators allege that Davis-Sharpe, owner of Bessie Mae Women’s Health Center in East Orange, operated the clinic without a medical license and hired Lus...