Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jeffrey Slocum, 56, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to three years of probation, the first 12 months of which he must serve in home confinement under electronic monitoring, for healthcare fraud and kickback offenses. According to court documents and statements made in court, from 2017 to 2022, Slocum, a former resident of East Lyme, Connecticut, was a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with an office located at 300 State Street in New London. In 2020, the Connecticut Medicaid program (“Medicaid”) notified Slocum that Medicaid was going to audit certain claims for psychotherapy services Slocum had billed to Medicaid between March 2018 and February 2020. As part of its audit, Medicaid requested patient records for approximately 100 individual psychotherapy services Slocum had billed to Medicaid.
