• Prosecutors say Nicole Kasimatis stole received $44,000 in fraudulent Medicare claims
• Kasimatis avoided jail time in two prior cases so she could pay restitution quicker
• Kasimatis is accused of billing patients for services she never provided

DEDHAM — A Quincy woman is being held on $25,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to charges of filing a false health care claim and one charge of larceny over $250 by a single scheme during her arraignment in Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday.

Judge Beverly Cannone ordered Nicole Kasimatis, 47, be held on $25,000 cash bail. Kasimatis is already being held on $1 million surety or $100,000 cash in a case the Attorney General's Office brought in November, in which she faces two counts of medical assistance fraud by a provider, one count of filing a false health care claim and two counts of larceny over $1,200, according to online court records.

The case, indicted in December, is the fourth brought against Kasimatis. She is already on probation from cases brought in 2015 and 2018.

Kasimatis is the owner of Fortitude Counseling in Quincy and Assistant Attorney General William Champlin IV said in court documents that she falsely billed Medicare for $151,000 for services she never provided between 2019 and 2021. Medicare paid out $44,000 for her fraudulent claims.

Kasimatis was already on probation for medical insurance fraud during a portion of the time that she was allegedly fraudulently billing Medicare, according to court...

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