A former Newington advanced practice registered nurse has been charged with defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid program out of more than $1.35 million by billing for medication management services federal prosecutors say she never provided. Marisol Rodriguez, 49, also known as Marisol Colon, was arrested Thursday and released on a $100,000 bond after appearing before U.S. Magistrate […]
A former Newington advanced practice registered nurse has been charged with defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid program out of more than $1.35 million by billing for medication management services federal prosecutors say she never provided.
Marisol Rodriguez, 49, also known as Marisol Colon, was arrested Thursday and released on a $100,000 bond after appearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish in Hartford, according to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan’s office. Rodriguez now lives in Lehigh Acres, Florida.
The complaint alleges Rodriguez submitted more than 15,000 fraudulent claims to the Connecticut Medical Assistance Program between January 2022 and August 2025. Her billings ranked first among a peer group of 116 APRNs reviewed by the state Department of Social Services, with roughly 5,000 more claims and about $500,000 more in payments than the second-highest biller in the group.
As an APRN, Rodriguez was licensed to prescribe controlled substances to Medicaid recipients and billed the program for medication management services.
Prosecutors allege she repeatedly billed for services that were never rendered, including claims tied to patients who had stopped seeing her months or years earlier, patients who were hospitalized, incarcerated or deceased, and patients she purportedly treated while she was working full time for another employer or collecting unemployment benefits after being terminated.
For patients she did see, the complaint alleges Rodriguez often failed to adequately review medical histories before prescribing controlled substances and did not consider how those prescriptions might interact with other medications.
Rodriguez is charged with health care fraud, which carries a maximum 10-year prison term, and making false statements relating to health care matters, which carries a maximum five-year term.
The Connecticut Medical Assistance Program, known as HUSKY or Connecticut Medicaid, provides medical coverage to low-income residents and is jointly funded by the state and federal governments.
The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the FBI and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney’s Office, with assistance from the state Department of Social Services. Assistant U.S. Attorney David T. Huang is prosecuting the case.
