Friday, January 30, 2015

WOMAN BILKS BLUE CROSS WITH PHONY CLAIMS OF RAPE AND CANCER





WOMAN BILKS BLUE CROSS WITH PHONY CLAIMS OF RAPE AND CANCER



Cervical cancer was clawing its way through Sara Ylen, leaving her six months to live. It was triggered when a stranger raped her in a parking lot. The assault gave her a sexually transmitted disease that caused the metastasizing cancer.


A heart rending story; only none of it was true. For years, the Port Huron, Mich.-area woman used the remarkable fairy tale and forged medical documents to bilk her insurer out of payments for un-needed hospice care. She was finally tripped up when a friend spotted one of the X-rays Ylen had used online.


Last January, Ylen pleaded no contest to insurance fraud and received a one-year sentence. That will run concurrently with another five-year sentence she received for falsely accusing two men of rape. Ylen also owes about $122,000 to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, mostly for the hospice care. A 2012 event at a local-area church raised $10,800 for her bills, but the church has not asked for repayment. That was just a fraction of the money donated to Ylen by sympathetic friends and neighbors over the years.