Former South Deerfield Resident Pleads Guilty To Defrauding MassHealth's Personal Care Attendant Program

BOSTON — The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) today announced that Brenda Bialecki, formerly of South Deerfield, has pleaded guilty to charges related to a kickback scheme she orchestrated to defraud MassHealth’s Personal Care Attendant (PCA) program. According to the AGO, Bialecki, as a MassHealth member, conspired with two of her PCAs to cause the submission of false claims to MassHealth for PCA services that were never provided, medically unnecessary, and/or the result of kickbacks. As part of the kickback arrangement, Bialecki and her co-conspirators split the fraudulently obtained MassHealth proceeds amongst themselves.

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