Medicaid provider to serve 30 days for presenting false records

Effective Dec 19, 2022

Published Dec 19, 2022

Last Reviewed Dec 15, 2022

A South Berwick, Maine, Medicaid pleaded guilty in December to Prohibited Acts — Presenting False Records, a class B felony, according to a statement from the New Hampshire Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General.

Michael A. Maggiacomo, age 52, is the former owner of Alerion Home Care and Wellness Solutions. The state DOJ release noted that between August 1, 2018, and September 30, 2020, Maggiacomo knowingly presented falsified nursing notes in connection with an audit by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to support Medicaid claims for nursing services that did not actually occur.

Maggiacomo was sentenced to serve twelve months in the Merrimack County House of Corrections, with all but 30 days suspended for three years.

Read the full release at https://www.doj.nh.gov/news/2022/20221213-owner-pleads-guilty.htm.

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