Former State Employee Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A Bridgeport woman pleaded guilty to health care fraud.

Toshirea Jackson, 49, of Bridgeport operated Transitional Development And Training (TDAT), and It Takes A Promise (ITAP) which provided social and psychotherapy services. She used the companies to bill Medicaid for services that were never provided.

Jackson was an employee of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. She obtained Medicaid provider numbers to use in the false billings, according to the U.S. Attorney District of Connecticut office.

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In pleading guilty, Jackson admitted that the scheme involved stealing the identity of more than 150 Medicaid clients, and that she and her co-conspirators successfully billed Medicaid for approximately half of those clients.

Jackson further admitted that she and her co-conspirators also billed Medicaid for services to other clients that were never provided to those clients.

When she is sentenced, Jackson faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years. She also has agreed to a restitution order of $2,496,618. A sentencing date is not scheduled.

Jackson is released on a $25,000 bond pending sentencing.

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