{"id":656545,"date":"2026-05-21T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656545\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:13:10","slug":"four-charged-in-659k-connecticut-medicaid-fraud-at-shelton-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656545\/","title":{"rendered":"Four charged in $659K Connecticut Medicaid fraud at Shelton clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation found that\u00a0Advanced Pain and Regenerative Medical Solutions Corporation, or APRM Solutions, submitted 4,009 fraudulent claims to the Connecticut Medicaid Program for allergy immunotherapy services, the DCJ said. The agency noted that the services were either not performed, or performed by an unsupervised, unqualified person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scheme resulted in a profit of\u00a0$659,627.66, according to the DCJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit charged David Waltzer, 62, of East Haven; Eid J. Atallah, 61, of\u00a0Middlebury; Terry L. Choszczyk, 65, of Seymour; and Kimberly\u00a0Choszczyk, 38, of Ansonia, the DCJ said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DCJ noted that the four people either owned or worked at the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The DCJ said\u00a0APRM Solutions filed\u00a0the fraudulent billings between February 2024 and October 2025. The claims were filed using medical providers&#8217; personal identification numbers without their permission, according to the DCJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Kimberly Choszczyk,\u00a0also known as Kimberly Castillo, performed allergy testing, mixed allergy medicine and administered allergy shots without a medical license, the DCJ said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Waltzer, Atallah, Terry Choszczyk and Kimberly Choszczyk each are charged with first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community, health insurance fraud, violation of license requirements, conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community, conspiracy to commit health insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit violation of license requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were each released on $100,000 bonds and are scheduled to appear at state Superior Court in Derby May 29, the DCJ said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"cci_tagline_name\" title=\"CCI Tagline Name\">Anyone with knowledge of suspected fraud, abuse, or neglect in the public healthcare system is asked to contact the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the Office of the Chief State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office at 860-258-5986.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation found that\u00a0Advanced Pain and Regenerative Medical Solutions Corporation, or APRM Solutions, submitted 4,009 fraudulent claims to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[107602,97,252,253,114238,253575,283034,114239],"class_list":["post-656545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-connecticut-post","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-new-haven-register","tag-news-times","tag-republican-american","tag-shelton-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}