A former senior manager at Maxim Healthcare Services Inc., a Columbia, Md.-based healthcare staffing and homecare provider, was sentenced Monday to five months in prison and five months of home confinement for his part in an unlicensed office that billed nearly $1 million to government healthcare programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey reported. The judge also imposed a $10,000 fine.

The former manager, Bryan Lee Shipman, 38, of Athens, Ga., pleaded guilty back on June 17, 2010, to a charge of healthcare fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

His charge relates to the his role as regional manager supervising the decision to operate Maxim’s Gainesville, Ga., office without a license from 2008 to 2009, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The Gainesville office billed the Medicaid program for reimbursement as if the bills came from a licensed office.

Shipman is one of nine former Maxim employees to have pleaded guilty to and been sentenced on charges arising from fraudulent activities related to government billings, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Maxim itself entered into a settlement with the government earlier this year in the amount of $150 million under a deferred prosecution agreement.

Shipman had been employed by Maxim for 13 years and managed 13 offices in 2008 with hundreds of employees and annual sales of more than $42 million, according to the office. Shipman earned more than $325,000 in his last year of employment at Maxim.

The eight other executives had been sentenced earlier.

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