Connecticut Charges ABA Owner and Technician in $602,000 Medicaid Case. Both Face 20-Year Counts.

ROCKY HILL, CONNECTICUT – Connecticut’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has arrested an ABA company’s owner and a technician who worked there, charging both with billing Medicaid for therapy that was not delivered or not fully delivered. The unit, part of the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney, puts the improper payments at about $602,000, roughly $354,000 of it from claims it says the two submitted together; it attributes the rest to the owner alone.

Alyse Enderle, 39, of Ludlow, Massachusetts, owns Autism Sparkles, a Hartford-area ABA provider. The unit’s September 28 release describes her as a board-certified behavior analyst, and the company’s own federal provider registration lists her the same way. Carmen Wynter, 47, of Hartford, worked there as a behavior technician. The release notes that analysts are responsible for directly supervising and observing technicians’ work with each client. Unit inspectors arrested Enderle on September 21, according to the release (her court record lists September 22), and Wynter on September 24.

The state says that from December 2021 to September 2023, the two conspired to submit Medicaid claims for services “that were not rendered or fully rendered to clients.” Prosecutors say Enderle also submitted, or had others submit, claims for other clients’ services that were not delivered or not fully delivered; those brought another $248,000 in payments and put her total at nearly $602,000.

Enderle faces two counts each of first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community (a larceny charge for knowingly false claims to a government agency) and health insurance fraud, plus one conspiracy count tied to each. Wynter faces one count of each charge and the same two conspiracy counts. All counts, including the conspiracy charges, are Class B felonies carrying up to 20 years in prison each if convicted, according to court records. Both women were released on $150,000 non-surety bonds, which require no cash or collateral up front but leave a defendant liable for the amount if a court orders it forfeited for failure to appear.

The unit investigated with help from the state Department of Social Services’ quality assurance office, the federal health department’s inspector general, the Connecticut Attorney General’s office, and New Britain police, and it will prosecute the case. The charges are accusations, and both women are presumed innocent. The four news reports reviewed for this article (FOX61, NBC Connecticut, Patch, and Western Mass News) did not include a response from either woman or from Autism Sparkles.

Court records checked September 30 list Enderle’s next appearance at New Britain Superior Court for October 20, with her case marked “Awaiting Plea,” and Wynter’s arraignment for October 1.

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