Press Release  Springfield Medicaid Consultant Pleads Guilty To Stealing From Elderly Nursing Home Victims

SPRINGFIELD — The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has today announced that Kaylie Giberson, of Springfield, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $40,000 from elderly nursing home victims and her employer, including by using her former role as a Medicaid consultant to steal victims’ financial information. Giberson pleaded guilty this week to charges brought by the AGO in December 2023 and February 2024.

Giberson pleaded guilty in Hampden County Superior Court to twenty-two counts, including six counts of Larceny over $250 from a person over 60, six counts of Forgery, three counts of Uttering a Forged Document or Check, three counts of Larceny, and three counts of Attempted Larceny. As a result of the plea, Giberson was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in the Hampden County House of Correction, suspended for five years, and sentenced to five years of probation. As part of her probation, Giberson has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 in restitution to the victims, have no contact with the victims and witnesses, refrain from all Power of Attorney and Fiduciary work, and refrain from working or volunteering with elders or in any healthcare setting.

The AGO alleged that, since at least 2022, while employed as a Springfield-based Medicaid consultant, Giberson engaged in a scheme to steal money from at least seven elderly residents of various nursing homes, her employer, and a local bank.

According to the AGO’s allegations, Giberson used her role as a Medicaid consultant to obtain access to nursing home residents’ financial information to steal money from victims. Giberson allegedly wrote false checks from her victims to herself, often in the sum of tens of thousands of dollars; used the debit cards of multiple victims to make personal purchases without their knowledge; and forged multiple signatures to grant herself a false durable power of attorney, which she used to access and steal from at least one victim’s bank account.

Additionally, the AGO alleged that, during Giberson’s employment with a Medicaid consulting company, she used the company’s credit card to complete unauthorized online retail purchases that were delivered to her residential address and intended for her personal use. Giberson’s employment with the Medicaid consulting company was ultimately terminated.

This matter was handled by Senior Trial Counsel Elisha W. Willis and Investigator Erica Schlain of the AGO’s Medicaid Fraud Division, along with Senior Victim Witness Advocate Megan Murphy of the AGO’s Victim Services Division. The Webster and Marlborough Police Departments provided significant assistance during the investigation.

The AGO’s Medicaid Fraud Division is a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, annually certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate and prosecute health care providers who defraud the state’s Medicaid program, MassHealth. The Medicaid Fraud Division also has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute complaints of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of residents in long-term care facilities and of Medicaid patients in any health care setting. Individuals may file a MassHealth fraud complaint or report cases of abuse or neglect of Medicaid patients or long-term care residents by visiting the AGO’s website.

The Massachusetts Medicaid Fraud Division receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $5,922,320 for federal fiscal year 2025. The remaining 25 percent, totaling $1,974,102 for FY 2025, is funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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