The manager of a now-closed adult day health services facility was sentenced to three years in state prison for defrauding the Medicaid program.

Salvatore Chillemi, 50, of Sewell, was the manager/direct and client outreach coordinator for the Shore Winds Adult Medical Day Care, a facility located in Somers Point, N.J.

At sentencing before Superior Court Judge Christine Allen-Jackson in Gloucester County, N.J., Chillemi also was ordered to pay $147,076 in fines and penalties, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

Chillemi, who pleaded guilty April 11 to second-degree health care claims fraud, also was barred from participation in the Medicaid program and any other federal- or state-funded health insurance or prescription assistance program for eight years.

He admitted that between May 8, 2006 and Nov. 8, 2010, he fraudulently submitted five or more claims for adult day health services valued at a total of more than $1,000, purportedly provided to Medicaid beneficiaries.  An investigation by the New Jersey Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor determined that the services for which the claims were submitted were either not provided, or not provided to the extent for which they were billed.