Maine isn’t the only state where Somali immigrants have used the home health care system to draw millions in taxpayer funding. Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak revealed a similar scheme enriching immigrants in Ohio at the expense of taxpayers.
Rosiak spent two months trawling through Medicaid billing data published by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before it shut down.
Ohio, like Minnesota and Maine, has a waiver that allows home care providers to bill Medicaid for chores like cooking and cleaning, not just medical services.
Both Maine and Ohio allow caregivers to bill for such services provided to relatives.
There is no easy way to determine whether any of those services billed for actually take place, because they take place inside private residences. The alleged recipient of the services would have to report a failure on the part of a caregiver, which would often amount to ratting out a relative and cutting off their source of easy income.
Rosiak identified an overabundance of home healthcare providers in Ohio, concentrated in single locations similar to the home healthcare hubs exposed by The Maine Wire.
He found one building that houses a staggering 94 businesses authorized to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office, many of which were empty and marked with notices that employees had stepped away.
“Nearly every owner of home health care companies in Columbus appears to be foreign. They live in a parallel society, where every associate in public records also has a foreign name, and all their business transactions are conducted with other foreigners,” said Rosiak.
According to Rosiak, the business model allows a Somali immigrant to bill for spending time with his own mother. The provider will become an employee of a business with his mother as the only client, and the state has no way to determine whether any services have actually been provided.
During his investigation, Rosiak discovered a politician who founded an $11 million home healthcare provider who funded his campaign with donations from other home health providers; a woman who converted her janitorial business into a health provider and billed $100,000 within the first month; and multiple other egregious abuses of the welfare system.
Somalis are like cockroaches .
When you find just one there are hundreds more waiting until you aren’t looking .
Janet Mills invited these people to Maine .
Thank you for keeping the fraud in the spotlight. Great job Shamus
DAH! Ya think so? All those off shore customer service call centers due to cost cutting is cutting our throats. Dems what die will be the lucky ones….ARRRRR
I found there are actually more of these fraud agencies starting in Maine…same pattern. Run by the same fraudsters, with the state of Maine blessing. Expert websites, that are revealing, absolutely nothing…”offices” now opening in northern Maine, Hermon, Bangor, Old Town. I was told, by one “fraudster”, that the Millinocket area is also being opened for fraud. Look where democrats control the towns and you will find even more fraud. I called one “agency”, that gave me their address….I drove there, while talking to them and the office was vacant…very telling.