Federal prosecutors: Bridgeport resident pleads guilty to health care fraud
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A Bridgeport resident pleaded guilty to health care fraud Wednesday, according to federal prosecutors.
According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, 31-year-old Nicole Balkas — who “owned and operated” a company in Bridgeport called Helping Hands Academy LLC — “submitted and caused to be submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid for applied behavior analysis services that were purportedly provided to Medicaid clients” over the course of close to two years.
“Balkas submitted claims for dates of service when no applied behavior analysis services of any kind had been provided to the Medicaid clients identified in the claims, and she inflated the number of hours for certain claims even when applied behavior analysis had been provided to the Medicaid clients identified in the claims,” the release read.