A Connecticut woman who worked as a personal care assistant has been arrested and charged with billing Medicaid for personal care services while the client was out of the country. Carmen Berroa, age 61, of Waterbury, was arrested on October 31, 2025, by Inspectors from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney. She was charged with one count each of Larceny in the First Degree By Defrauding A Public Community, in violation of Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-122(a)(3) and Health Insurance Fraud, in violation of Connecticut General Statutes § 53-442. According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Berroa enrolled as a personal care assistant for a program recipient in October of 2023. The program recipient then relocated to the Dominican Republic in December 2023. Between the dates of December 6, 2023, to August 6, 2025, while the program recipient was out of the country, Berroa submitted fraudulent time sheets and received payments totaling $13,153.59 for 243 dates of service she did not provide.