Crime & Safety
Medical Clinic Worker From East Haven Arrested: Feds
Court officials said four people were arrested and were released on $100,000 bonds, officials said.
EAST HAVEN, CT — Four employees of a Shelton medical clinic were charged Wednesday in connection to a scheme that defrauded the state Medicaid health insurance program of nearly $660,000, Chief State's Attorney Patrick Griffin announced.
According to a news release from the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice, all four were arrested and charged by inspectors from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State's Attorney "for their roles in a scheme that defrauded the Connecticut Medicaid Health Insurance Program of $659,627.66."
David Waltzer, 62, of East Haven, Eid Atallah, 61, of Middlebury, Terry Choszczyk, 65, of Seymour and Kimberly Choszczyk, also known as Kimberly Castillo, 38, of Ansonia, were each 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.
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According to the news release, the four people either owned or worked at Advanced Pain and Regenerative Medical Solution Corporation, or APRM Solutions, in Shelton.
An investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit revealed that between February 2024 and October 2025, APRM Solutions engaged in fraudulent billings to the state Medicaid program for allergy immunotherapy services, according to the news release.
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According to the news release, the scheme involved APRM Solutions "submitting claims using medical provider's personal identification numbers without their permission to bill for treatments that were either not performed or performed by an unsupervised, unqualified person."
Kimberly Choszczyk is also accused of "performing allergy testing, mixing of allergy medicine and administering of allergy shots without a medical license," according to the news release.
APRM Solutions billed 4,009 claims for immunotherapy services that were either not performed or not performed by a physician or qualified person, according to the news release.
According to the news release, the submissions of the claims to the Department of Social Services "contained false, incomplete, deceptive or misleading information."
All four were released on $100,000 bonds and are scheduled to appear in court later this month, according to the news release.
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