HARTFORD — A former Glastonbury-based therapist will avoid prison time after he was convicted of submitting more than $100,000 in false claims to the state’s Medicaid program, officials said.
Glenroy Patterson, 49, formerly of East Hartford, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, execution of that time suspended, with five years conditional discharge, according to Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin.
Griffin said Patterson, who now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, also paid $102,084.17 in restitution, the same amount he admitted to fraudulently billing the Connecticut Medicaid Health Insurance Program.
The sentence was handed down in Superior Court in Hartford about three months after Patterson pleaded guilty to health insurance fraud in connection with a scheme that took place between March 2020 and December 2021.
Griffin said Patterson, a licensed board certified behavioral analyst and the owner of the autism specialty group Trading Spaces ABA, LLC in Glastonbury, billed for services that were never provided.
An investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney found evidence Trading Spaces was not meeting with clients as reported despite claims to the Department of Social Services.
Griffin said Patterson was ordered not to be a Medicaid provider. He noted Patterson is also subject to mandatory exclusion as a healthcare provider to certain federally funded health programs as a result of his guilty plea.
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