WASHINGTON — A Silver Spring man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court for his role in a scheme that billed D.C. Medicaid for mental health services that were never provided or were dramatically inflated, causing more than $250,000 in losses.
Said Nassor, 46, pleaded guilty Aug. 26, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
Nassor began working in August 2022 as a community support worker for a D.C. Medicaid provider authorized to deliver mental health rehabilitative services to youth and adolescent beneficiaries.
From approximately January 2022 through at least February 2025, prosecutors said Nassor conspired with company employees and other community support workers to submit false and fraudulent claims for reimbursement to D.C. Medicaid.
According to court documents, workers were directed to bill the maximum number of units allowed for each patient regardless of medical necessity or whether the services were actually provided.
Community support workers were also instructed to bill a full hour for every telehealth encounter, regardless of how long the call lasted, and were trained to shave a few minutes off claims — such as billing 54 minutes instead of 60 — to make the calls appear more realistic.
Workers were further directed to bill three hours, and later one hour, for diagnostic assessments regardless of how much time was actually spent with the patient.
From July 27, 2022, through June 23, 2023, Nassor documented more than 701 hours of telehealth services across six patients. Call records showed he had actually spent only about 172 minutes on the telephone with them.
On Oct. 21, 2024, Nassor also created and billed for three telehealth encounters involving an undercover FBI employee posing as a patient. Prosecutors said none of those encounters actually took place.
Investigators determined Nassor’s role in the conspiracy caused more than $250,000 in losses to Medicaid.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI Washington Field Office and the D.C. Office of the Inspector General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Facci of the Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section prosecuted the case.
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