A Mechanicsville-based licensed clinical social worker, Daniel Jacobsen, has agreed to pay $449,014.93 to settle civil fraud claims brought by the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia. This settlement comes after Jacobsen was convicted of criminal health care fraud.
Court documents state that from January 2017 to December 2022, Jacobsen submitted at least $335,824.31 in fraudulent claims for reimbursement to Virginia Medicaid and Medicare. The fraudulent activity included billing for more than 16 hours of services in a single day and using billing codes for more complex and higher-rate services than those actually provided. To support these claims, Jacobsen used false psychotherapy progress notes indicating patients had received services they did not.
Jacobsen pleaded guilty to health care fraud on October 17, 2024. On March 13, he was sentenced to three months in prison. As part of his criminal case, he paid $316,338.31 in restitution and was ordered to pay $335,821.31 in forfeiture as well as a $100,000 fine. With the additional civil settlement amount, the total payments related to this case are $1,201,174.55.
The case involved cooperation between the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Office of the Virginia Attorney General. Assistant U.S. Attorney Carla Jordan-Detamore prosecuted the criminal case while Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McIntosh and Virginia Assistant Attorneys General Joseph Hall, Ray Bowman, and Christopher Salerno investigated the civil matter.
“A copy of this press release is also available on the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia’s website here.”
