A woman from Carbondale was sentenced on Wednesday, inside the US District Court in Benton, to charges of scheming to steal from a healthcare program.  Stephanie Patterson got sentenced to 5-years of probation, with the 4 months of that being served in home detention.  She also was ordered to pay over $81,000 in restitution to the Home Services Program.  Court records indicate that Patterson defrauded the State of Illinois Medicaid Home Services Program, by falsely claiming and taking payments for personal assistant services that were not actually performed.  The Home Services Program is a Medicaid Waiver Program, which is designed to allow individuals to stay at their homes, instead of entering a nursing home.  Patterson falsely billed the program from between January 2011 to June 2016, when she falsely claimed that one of her relatives received personal assistant services to a customer, when in fact the relative was incarcerated at the time that services were claimed to be performed.  As a result, Patterson improperly billed hundreds of hours of services and obtained over $81,000 in payments for services that were not performed.  The investigation was conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the Inspector General, the Illinois State Police Department and the Medicaid Fraud Control Bureau.