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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 …