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CT Hearing Aid Dealer Gets Years In Prison For Submitting False Medicaid Claims CT Hearing Aid Dealer Gets Years In Prison For Submitting False Medicaid Claims
CT Hearing Aid Dealer Gets Years In Prison For Submitting False Medicaid Claims The 54-year-old owner of a Connecticut hearing aid dealer will spend several years in prison for submitting false claims to the state's Medicaid program for services and equipment that were not provided or were medically unnecessary.  New Haven County resident Dennis Dellaghelfa, age 54, of Waterbury, was sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 6 to four years in prison for health care fraud, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut announced.  According to federal officials, Dellaghelfa, a licensed hearing instrument specialist, is the owner of Waterbury-based hea…

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CT Doctor Sentenced For $894K Medicaid Defraud Scam CT Doctor Sentenced For $894K Medicaid Defraud Scam
CT Doctor Sentenced For $894K Medicaid Defraud Scam A doctor in Connecticut is will spend years behind bars after admitting to defrauding a Medicaid program of nearly a million dollars. Middletown resident Crispin Abarientos, a 45-year-old who owns and operates Middlesex Rheumatology in Middletown, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, after pleading guilty in Hartford federal court to one count of health care fraud after he ran a scheme that netted him $894,789. According to U.S. Attorney John Durham, one of the medications that Abarientos prescribes to his Middlesex Rheumatology patients wa…

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by Zak Failla
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CT Rheumatologist Admits To Defrauding Medicaid Program CT Rheumatologist Admits To Defrauding Medicaid Program
CT Rheumatologist Admits To Defrauding Medicaid Program A rheumatologist in Connecticut is facing a decade behind bars after admitting to defrauding a Medicaid program of nearly a million dollars. Middletown resident Crispin Abarientos, 44, who owns and operates Middlesex Rheumatology in Middletown, pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to one count of health care fraud after he ran a scheme that netted him $894,789. According to U.S. Attorney John Durham, one of the medications that Abarientos prescribes to his Middlesex Rheumatology patients is Remicade, an injectable prescription medication used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.  When …

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by Zak Failla