The head of a sober home and drug abuse treatment facility in Palm Beach County is accused of submitting over $500,000 in fraudulent insurance claims, according to court records.
Xiomara Colon, 44, was arrested Thursday on charges of false and fraudulent insurance claims over $100,000, operating a substance abuse facility without a license and unlawful activities relating to personnel, among others, county court records show.
As CEO of Rise to Recovery, a drug treatment facility in West Palm Beach that also ran a sober home in Lake Worth Beach, Colon fraudulently billed three insurance companies for services from June to September 2021, when the facility was not licensed to treat anyone, a probable cause affidavit said.
Substance abuse programs are required by state law to be licensed in order to bill insurance claims. If the companies had known Colon’s facility was not licensed, they would not have paid the claims, the affidavit said.
As the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office’s Sober Homes Task Force investigated Rise to Recovery, they learned Colon had also submitted fraudulent documents during the licensure application process and ran the program with unauthorized personnel, the affidavit said.
The Florida Department of Children and Families officials told Colon in June 2021 that Rise to Recovery’s license had expired and that Colon did not apply for renewal in time, the affidavit said.
Colon attempted to apply for another license in late June 2021 since the...
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