A 46-year-old Haverhill woman was recently sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty last June to submitting more than $150,000 in false claims to MassHealth for personal care attendant services.
Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s office said Wednesday Jasmin Bryan, a MassHealth recipient, and Victor Simard, her personal care attendant, were indicted in July 2024 by an Essex County Grand Jury after submitting false claims for services Simard never provided. Besides prison, Bryan must serve 18 months of probation, pay restitution to MassHealth, refrain from any responsibility with the MassHealth PCA program and refrain from billing and bookkeeping work.
Campbell’s office alleged that since Sept. 12, 2019, Bryan submitted timesheets to MassHealth, showing Simard provided services to her during times when he was in jail. According to jail calls between Bryan and Simard, both were aware of, and financially benefitted from, submission of the timesheets.
Simard pleaded guilty in Essex Superior Court in June 2025 to one count of Medicaid false claims and one count of larceny over $1,200 by false pretenses.
MassHealth’s personal care attendant program helps individuals with chronic or long-term disabilities live independently in their community by providing medically necessary physical assistance with personal care needs.