<p>Just weeks after the Daily Wire’s investigation into Medicaid fraud in Ohio, the Trump administration arrived at the epicenter of the scandal in Columbus to start shutting the fraudsters down.</p>
<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the administration&#8217;s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, personally traveled to Columbus, and rattled off findings from our investigation into abuse of the &#8220;home health care&#8221; program, which accounts for billions of dollars in Medicaid spending.</p>
<p>From outside of a company that was caught defrauding the government through home health, Dr. Oz said his team confirmed the Daily Wire report about a cluster of hundreds of home health companies in seven office buildings on one street in Columbus.</p>
<p>&#8220;We also identify 288 Medicaid registered home health aid companies operating out of just seven office buildings along one nearby road,&#8221; Dr. Oz said. &#8220;Some of these buildings are nearly vacant. Home health care and personal care services have become the subject of nearly all of the recent fraud prosecutions in Ohio.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Fraudsters have been treating Medicaid like a piggy bank, but it ends now.</p>
<p>Ohio is showing what happens when data meets accountability. We followed the money and caught the crooks.</p>
<p>And we’re not done yet. See you again soon, Ohio. <a href="https://t.co/Z1FMxI3gQl">pic.twitter.com/Z1FMxI3gQl</a></p>
<p>— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) <a href="https://x.com/DrOzCMS/status/2060712047432568944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The seven buildings containing 288 companies that billed a quarter-billion dollars worth of Medicaid payments were identified by The Daily Wire after Dr. Oz&#8217;s agency released data on Medicaid expenditures.</p>
<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million</a></strong></p>
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<p>Those buildings are all owned by a New Jersey-based landlord, Cordoba, and illustrate just how much of the economy in Columbus has been replaced with Medicaid businesses.</p>
<p>Even Cordoba expressed concern with the findings.</p>
<p>&#8220;The questions you’re raising about how Ohio’s Medicaid dollars are being used and abused are certainly legitimate ones,&#8221; a spokesman for the real estate company said. &#8220;After your reporting surfaced, <span class="il">Cordoba</span> proactively contacted the Ohio Auditor of State and offered its full cooperation with any investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>As was noted by Dr. Oz, the suspicious Medicaid businesses are clustered in a neighborhood that is home to one of the country&#8217;s largest Somali immigrant communities.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in Columbus, Ohio, it&#8217;s home to the second largest Somali population in the entire United States, after Minneapolis,&#8221; Dr. Oz said. &#8220;Franklin County, where we are now, by itself accounts more than a third of the billion and a half dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. That is three times more than what would be expected.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Now process that statistic: the corruption is so widespread here that over a third of the entire state&#8217;s home health care budget goes to this county, which is three times more than you expect,&#8221; Dr. Oz said.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s series, Medicaid Millions, is still in progress, yet numerous top government officials have already taken action. Part 5 of the series is set to drop next week.</p>
<p>Dr. Oz pledged that this is just the beginning of the crackdown on fraud.</p>
<p>&#8220;If we do this the right way, people will stop using Medicaid as a piggy bank,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Vice President [JD] Vance, who&#8217;s from Ohio, wants the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force coming after fraudsters everywhere with everything we have.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Wednesday, a new congressional task force created by the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on Ohio home health care fraud, where I will testify on what I found in Ohio.</p>
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