JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The state insurance department has ordered two southwest Missouri men and the companies they're connected to to pay a total of $1.2 million for a health insurance scheme.

The state accuses Kevin Louderback of Springfield and Justin Barnes of Battlefield of creating Citizens for Aids Assistance and Prevention to fraudulently enroll hundreds of Medicaid-eligible people with health insurance through United Healthcare.

Louderback and Barnes are accused of wrongly seeking reimbursement for broker's fees and over-reported insurance premiums through a Medicaid program. For example, according to the department, they owed United about $444,000 in premiums for April 2007 but were reimbursed roughly $538,000 by the Health Insurance Premium Payment Program.

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