The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of West Virginia announced Wednesday, March 19, that Shawn R. Blankenship, 54, of Winfield, has pleaded guilty to four counts of health care fraud.

Blankenship is a licensed nurse practitioner and owner of Holistic Inc., a medical clinic in St. Albans. He admitted to knowingly and willfully causing materially false claims to be submitted to Medicaid and its Managed Care Organizations for medical services that were not…