Overview
- Simiskey was sentenced Oct. 21 in 3rd District Court after pleading guilty to a pattern of unlawful activity, tax evasion, and public assistance fraud, with other charges dismissed in a plea deal.
- She was ordered to pay $2,698,488.95 in restitution—$2.6 million to Medicaid, $59,044 to the Utah Tax Commission, and $39,444.95 to the Department of Workforce Services—and will serve four years of probation.
- Court filings say she and two others submitted more than 7,700 fraudulent substance-use treatment claims from March 2019 to June 2022 that brought about $12.9 million to Measures of Affect Theoretically Relative.
- Investigators say she failed to file or misstated tax returns and improperly received public assistance while earning over $1.7 million from the provider.
- Utah’s Medicaid Fraud Division says falsified records meant some court-ordered patients were not seen by qualified providers; a Jan. 13, 2026 hearing will set a restitution payment schedule.