PROVIDENCE - A Providence woman has pleaded guilty to forging prescriptions with stolen paperwork and bilking health insurers for $138,000.

Carol DiPina pleaded guilty this week to two counts of conspiracy, distributing a controlled substance and health care fraud. She will be sentenced on Sept. 5 and faces up to 35 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors said DiPina took blank prescription forms from Rhode Island Hospital. She would then allegedly write prescriptions for drugs including OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin in other people's names, and pay those people to pick up the drugs for her.

Prosecutors said DiPina either sold the drugs or traded them for crack cocaine.

Prosecutors said the scheme cost health insurers about $138,000 over a seven-year period starting in 2001.

DiPina's attorney declined to comment.