Mostafa Alahmedi, president of 5 Star Home Health Care, continued working in Maine’s booming homecare fraud economy after his own business was ordered to repay $390,672 in MaineCare overbilling before allegedly leaving the U.S. to work as an HVAC installer in Turkmenistan.
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Alahmedi’s page on Bold Pro, a networking site similar to LinkedIn, reveals him to be a true Renaissance man, having mastered multiple professions, including HVAC installation, home healthcare, security, and auto sales.
The page claims that Alahmedi currently works as a personal support worker at Community Home Health Care in South Portland and Golden Home Care in Westbrook and previously worked at Ocean Home Health Care, in addition to his leadership at 5 Star.
All together, the home care businesses where Alahmedi has worked drew a collective $66,487,379 from 2019-2025.
Alahmedi also claims to hold Secret-level security clearance from the U.S. Department of War (DOW) issued in 2025, after 5 Star was ordered to repay hundreds of thousands in improper Medicaid billing and after the business shut down.
According to Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) records obtained by The Maine Wire, 5 Star only paid back $13,961 of the $390,672 they were ordered to repay.
Ocean Home Health Care
Ocean Home Health served as Alahmedi’s introduction to Maine’s vast and corrupt home health industry.
The home-care business has drawn in $11,486,784 in Medicaid funding since 2019 and continues to maintain operations, though Alahmedi allegedly left at the end of 2020.
Business records list Benjamin P. Campo, Jr., a North Yarmouth-based lawyer, as Ocean Home Health’s registered agent, but their website identifies someone by the name of Amar Kinani as its executive director.
The company’s head office is located at 68 Bishop Street in Portland, an address it shares with Zahraa Home Care, operated by Duaa Mohammad.
Auditors from the Office of MaineCare Services looked at Ocean Home Care’s billing practices through all of 2020, when Alahmedi was employed there, and found that they overbilled MaineCare by $24,437 after the business failed to keep proper documentation.
Long after the appeal deadline, Ocean Home Care submitted an appeal request with assistance from the Portland-based Hanly Law firm. Hanly Law has helped other home health care businesses, including Holding Care and Engility Enterprises, appeal recoupment requests from program integrity auditors.
Ocean Home Care’s request was denied, and records obtained by The Maine Wire show that, over the course of 2022, they paid back the full amount.
Though they paid back the overbilled funds, it does not appear that they reformed their business practices or began to keep proper records.
State licensing records show that a December 2025 “on site” inspection–that appears to actually have been a desk review–found numerous deficiencies with the provider.
Inspectors found numerous record-keeping failures regarding both client and employee records. The company promised to remedy the errors, and their plan of corrections was accepted.
The Maine Wire visited Ocean Home Care’s office on Friday, during the business hours posted on their website.
We asked a man at the office if he could talk, but he evaded attempts to speak with him about the business and repeatedly claimed that we could not speak with them without an appointment, despite us arriving during their posted office hours.
He also refused to tell us his full name.
Ocean Home Care’s office at 68 Bishop Street is within view of 75 Bishop Street across the street, where 5 Star was located.
Golden Home Care
From 2019-2025, Golden Home Care drew $5,986,019, drawing $1,436,217 in 2025 alone, when Alahmedi claims to have started working there.
Someone by the name of Ryam Hadi serves as the Medicaid recipient’s registered agent on business records.
Those records list 75 Trail Head Way in Portland as the business’ home office and 2 Church Street in Westbrook as its mailing address.
It appears that the records were filled out incorrectly, because the Trail Head Way address is a suburban home that last sold for over $800,000, and the Church Street location is a commercial address.
A 2024 audit of Golden Home Care’s billing from January 2020 to March 2023 initially led auditors to demand that the provider repay $1,676,126 in improper billing.
Auditors were unable to find any records showing that services the company billed for ever actually took place. Auditors then made numerous attempts to contact Golden Home Care via email, phone, and in person to request records.
Attempts stretched from October 2021 to July 2023, and auditors repeatedly received no answers to their emails or phone calls.
During an in-person visit to Golden Home Care’s office, auditors found no signage indicating that the business even existed.
Hadi did respond after he was ordered to repay over a million dollars. He claimed that he never answered any calls because his business received numerous scam calls every day.
His excuse failed to explain why he did not respond to emails, why he failed to provide records initially, or why auditors were unable to find evidence of the business’ existence in person.
Despite Hadi’s extremely suspicious behavior, he was able to speak with auditors over the phone, provided additional records, and had the recoupment canceled.
Golden Home Care has been allowed to continue operating and receiving millions in MaineCare funding.
According to licensing records, Golden Home Care last faced an “on site” inspection in July 2025 and was cleared with no deficiencies.
The Maine Wire visited Golden Home Care’s Westbrook office on Friday afternoon. We found signage inside the door indicating that multiple homecare businesses are located in the building, but the entrance to the waiting room was locked, and it appeared that no lights were on in the building.
After knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell, The Maine Wire called Golden Home Care and left a voicemail, but the Medicaid biller never called back.
Community Home Health Care
Community Home Health is one of the largest billers in Maine’s booming homecare industry, drawing a staggering $47,986,855 in taxpayer funding from 2019-2025. 2025 was the provider’s highest billing year: they drew $10,136,332 in that year alone, and there is no indication that their billing is slowing down.
Business records identify Noora A. Abd as Community Home Health’s registered agent. They place her mailing address at a residence at 41 Cathedral Oaks Drive, Biddeford, and put the business’ head office at 184 Main Street in South Portland.
They maintain an active license to operate as a personal care agency and last received a clean “on site” inspection in February 2025.
Abd is also listed as the registered agent for two now-inactive businesses, Jana and M LLC and F and N LLC, both described as rental property addresses with their mailing addresses set at the Cathedral Oaks Drive residence.
During a visit to Community Home Health’s South Portland office, The Maine Wire spoke with a woman who claimed to be the office assistant and who allowed us to step inside the office.
She found no records to indicate that Alahmedi actually works there.
Shortly after we left the office, the business’s registered agent, Abd, called reporters, claiming that she was familiar with The Maine Wire’s work investigating alleged Medicaid fraud.
She said that her business, despite its massive billing numbers, is legitimate. She also confirmed that Alahmedi is no longer working there. She would not say when or why he left but did say that she believes he is no longer living in the U.S.
Alahmedi’s Strange History
Alahmedi’s Bold Pro page reveals a strange and varied professional history that began in 2014 in Iraq, where he worked until 2017 as an HVAC installer for the AL Dayer Construction Company.
He seemingly came from Iraq to Maine in 2017 and quickly began working in the state. It is not clear whether this was the first time Alahmedi came to the U.S. He lists both English and Arabic as his native languages.
The Maine Wire was able to find a Facebook page that appears to belong to Alahmedi. That page includes numerous posts in Arabic.
The page provides further evidence of Alahmedi’s ties to Iraq, where he worked and presumably lived before coming to Maine, according to his Bold Pro employment history.
In one 2019 post, Alahmedi included a now-defunct link to a petition urging support for Iraqi General Abdel-Waham al-Saadi to become the nation’s prime minister.
His first listed job in Maine was as the operations manager for Hayder Auto Sales and Service in Gorham. While working that job, he also worked as a finish carpenter for Jordan LLC in South Portland, a position he held for approximately two years.
Business records show that Hayder Auto Sales has been administratively dissolved. The business’s registered agent, Mohammed Alahmedi, lived at 18 Teri Circle, Apartment 188, in Westbrook.
That is the same address and apartment number listed on business records for Mostafa Alahmedi’s 5 Star Home Care.
Alahmedi claims that he graduated from Westbrook High School in June 2019 while managing the auto company. He described himself as a “recent graduate with foundational knowledge in Westbrook high school [sic] and hands-on experience gained through academic projects and internships.”
It is not exactly clear why a grown man was studying at the Westbrook High School, but the Westbrook School Department does offer an adult education program.
After his high school graduation, Alahmedi left his job as a carpenter and began working as a personal support worker for Ocean Home Health Care in Portland.
He also left his position at the auto company months after beginning his home care career.
While still working at Ocean Home Health, Alahmedi became the owner and manager of another auto sales company, Friends Auto Sales and Service in Windham, in March 2020. Alahmedi’s BoldPro page shows that he departed the company in August 2021.
While still working at both Friends Auto and Ocean Home Health, Alahmedi says that he began working as a security escort for Flight Service & Systems in Portland from February 2020 until September 2022.
Flight Service and Systems provides contract staffing for airports, making it likely that if Alahmedi worked for them in Portland, he would have been at the Portland International Jetport.
His Bold Pro page claims that the job required him to provide “clear documentation” on his daily activities and facilitate accurate record keeping, skills that he seemingly did not transfer over to his leadership role at the now-defunct 5 Star.
In August 2022, Alahmedi started work as a sales supervisor at the Avis Budget Group, a rental car company, and in October of that year, he claims to have started as owner of 5 Star.
According to business records, 5 Star first incorporated in October 2021, and the reason for the discrepancy between that date and Alahmedi’s self-proclaimed start date is not clear.
Before 5-Star shut down after auditors demanded that they repay $390,672, Mostafa began work in February 2023 at the similarly named 5 Stars Auto Sales and Services, under registered agent Methaq Ramadan.
After Alahmedi claims he left 5 Stars Auto in January 2025, the timeline of his employment history becomes confused.
According to his profile, Alahmedi began working at both Golden Home Care and Community Home Health Care in January 2025 and continues to work for both Medicaid recipients to this day, though The Maine Wire confirmed that he no longer works at Community Home Health.
While allegedly working at both home care businesses, he claims that he began working in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as a security escort for KBR.
According to KBR’s website, they offer a variety of positions in the Middle East, working with the U.S. military and on military bases. Many of their job listings require Secret security clearance from the DOW.
If Alahmedi really did work in security for KBR, that would likely account for his security clearance, though The Maine Wire could not independently verify that he actually held clearance.
He claims to have left his work at KBR in December 2025, and in the same month he says that he began his current position as an HVAC technician for Caddell Construction in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Given that his position in Turkmenistan says that it is ongoing and Abd’s belief that he has left the country, it appears likely that he remains in the Middle Eastern nation.
The Maine Wire reached out to Alahmedi by phone, but the call was sent immediately to voicemail, and he did not immediately respond to the message or call back.
