BENTON — A 45-year-old Edwardsville chiropractor has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Benton to two-count federal information charging Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering.

Bridget Brasfield, Brasfield, who was a chiropractic physician licensed in Illinois, and practiced in Granite City, admitted that between January of 2011 and January of 2014, she submitted approximately $500,000 in false and fraudulent bills to various health care benefit plans.

The fraudulent submissions to Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare, Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and Coventry Insurance claimed that a Medical Doctor had provided services to patients at her Granite City Office when in fact the Doctor was out of the country when the services were claimed to have been provided.

Brasfield also admitted that she had engaged in a financial transaction that involved criminally derived proceeds from her health care fraud. The specific transaction involved $12,000 in criminally derived funds that she transferred in violation of federal money laundering statutes.

Sentencing for Brasfield has been set for August 30, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Benton.