APRN Charged with Defrauding Connecticut Medicaid of Over $1.3 Million

Marisol Rodriguez, also known as Marisol Colon, a 49-year-old Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) from Lehigh Acres, Florida, was arrested yesterday on federal charges of health care fraud offenses for allegedly defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid program.

According to court documents, Rodriguez, formerly of Newington, Connecticut, is accused of submitting over 15,000 fraudulent claims totaling more than $1.35 million to the Connecticut Medical Assistance Program (CTMAP), known as HUSKY or Connecticut Medicaid, between January 2022 and August 2025. These claims were for medication management services purportedly not provided to Medicaid patients.

The allegations include billing for services to patients who had stopped seeing her, while she was employed full-time elsewhere, while collecting unemployment benefits, and for patients who were hospitalized, incarcerated, or deceased. An analysis by the Connecticut Department of Social Services revealed Rodriguez ranked first among 116 APRNs in Medicaid billings during this period, with approximately 5,000 more claims and $500,000 more in payments than the second-highest billing APRN.

Furthermore, it is alleged that for actual patients, Rodriguez frequently failed to adequately review medical history before prescribing controlled substances, neglecting to consider their necessity or safety when combined with other prescriptions. She faces charges of health care fraud, carrying a maximum term of 10 years imprisonment, and making false statements relating to health care matters, with a maximum term of five years.

U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan stressed that these are only allegations, and Rodriguez is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The investigation involves the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney’s Office. This case aligns with the Department of Justice’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division and President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.