Bloomfield Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Health Care Fraud

David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAWN TYSON, 55, of Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, and three years of supervised release, for health care fraud. According to court documents and statements made in court, Tyson was a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LADC) with an office located at 330 Main Street in Hartford. From November 2019 to April 2023, Tyson and Thelma “Wendy” Epps, who had been suspended as a provider by the Connecticut Medicaid program (“Medicaid”) in 2018, defrauded Medicaid by submitting fraudulent claims for psychotherapy counseling sessions that were not provided by Tyson or Epps. In addition, Tyson and Epps agreed to submit claims to Medicaid under Tyson’s unique Medicaid provider number for services purportedly provided by Epps that falsely represented that Tyson had personally provided the services to Medicaid patients.

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