MONTPELIER, Vt. — A former Vermont Medicaid service provider from Hinsdale, New Hampshire, has been sentenced for submitting false timesheets for care he claimed to have provided to another person, the Vermont Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.

Brian Prouty, 39, was sentenced in Windsor County Superior Court on one misdemeanor count of fraud by false pretenses, according to the attorney general's office. The charge followed an investigation by the office's Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit.

Judge Elizabeth Mann deferred sentencing for two years. During that time Prouty will remain on probation and must pay $24,376 in restitution, the office said.

Prouty also will give up the right to have his criminal record expunged for five years and will not work as a Medicaid service provider again, according to the attorney general's office.

His conviction is eligible for dismissal if he successfully completes probation, the office said.

The release did not describe the period covered by the false timesheets or identify the person Prouty claimed to have cared for.

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