A Maryland man admitted in federal court that he took part in a scheme to bill D.C. Medicaid for mental health services that were never delivered or were wildly inflated, producing more than a quarter-million dollars in losses and triggering a federal fraud prosecution.
Nassor, 46, of Silver Spring, pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court in a case announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. He admitted to participating in a pattern of false billing tied to mental health rehabilitative services for youth and adolescents. The guilty plea came before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.
Prosecutors say Nassor began working in August 2022 as a Community Support Worker for a D.C. Medicaid provider authorized to deliver services to young beneficiaries. Court filings describe a system where employees were told to pad claims and bill the maximum units allowed, regardless of medical necessity or whether any service actually occurred. That instruction turned routine telehealth check-ins and assessments into inflated claims.
Community support workers were reportedly coached to bill a full hour for every telehealth encounter regardless of how long calls actually lasted. They were allegedly taught to shave a few minutes off each entry—for example, billing 54 minutes instead of 60—to make falsified calls look believable on paper. Workers also were directed to bill fixed blocks of time for diagnostic assessments, sometimes three hours and later one hour, without regard to actual time spent.
Investigators say the pattern was striking in Nassor’s own records. From July 27, 2022, through June 23, 2023, he logged more than 701 hours of telehealth services across six patients, while call records indicate roughly 172 minutes of actual telephone contact. On October 21, 2024, Nassor is accused of creating and billing three telehealth encounters for an undercover FBI employee who was posing as a patient; those encounters did not occur.
The scheme is described in court documents that, for now, are not available on PACER. According to prosecutors, the combined conduct attributed to Nassor led to a loss to Medicaid exceeding $250,000. That figure is the sum investigators tied directly to his participation in the billing operation and the false claims submitted to the District’s Medicaid program.
Federal and local investigators handled the probe, with the FBI Washington Field Office working alongside the D.C. Office of the Inspector General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The U.S. Attorney’s Office assigned the case to the Fraud, Public Corruption, and Civil Rights Section, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Facci leading the prosecution. The criminal count Nassor pleaded to carries serious penalties under federal healthcare fraud statutes.
These kinds of schemes rely on exploiting complex billing rules and trusted positions inside care providers, prosecutors say. When staffers are pressured to report maximal units and to disguise short calls as near-hour encounters, the paperwork can look plausible to payors. But phone logs, timestamps, and undercover checks can quickly expose discrepancies between billing records and real-world contacts.
https://x.com/FBIWFO/status/2093156705030836646
The case also highlights how sprawling Medicaid enrollment magnifies the stakes when fraud occurs. As of May 2026, over 66 million people in the United States were enrolled in Medicaid, creating a massive federal and state safety-net program that is vulnerable to abuse. Even relatively small, repeated overbilling by providers or employees can add up to large losses across programs with high per-capita spending.
Beyond the financial hit, prosecutors emphasize the harm to vulnerable patients and to program integrity. Billing for services that did not happen undermines trust in community-based mental health supports and diverts resources away from legitimate care. The government’s investigation and the guilty plea are intended both to hold individuals accountable and to deter similar conduct in a system that depends on accurate documentation.
The criminal case will proceed through the federal sentencing process following Nassor’s plea, and the record assembled by investigators will be used to determine any punishment. The prosecution underscores a broader enforcement effort by federal and local authorities to detect and dismantle schemes that target Medicaid and other healthcare programs for improper reimbursement.
