Fraud isn’t just happening in the blue cities where you might expect. It’s happening right under the noses of Republican governors. In Ohio, for example, one address was listed for 94 companies — no windows, totally empty — and billed to you, the American taxpayer, for $66 million.
Over the last several years, shell companies have been fake-billing, providing fake services, and covering their tracks until this very instant. Daily Wire has now uncovered, via Luke Rosiak and our investigative team, Medicaid millionaires. In the blockbuster piece, Rosiak points out:
Under the guise of health care, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries’ homes to perform “homemaking” and “chores” like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these “personal services” tasks don’t even have to be health care workers.
In 2024, Ohio spent $1 billion on home health care. They literally pay people Medicaid money to go to other people’s houses to perform homemaking and chores. And, as Luke writes, the new welfare queens aren’t the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs. They’re the companies getting rich off of them.
His overall impression is that 99% of the facilities visited had the hallmarks of waste, fraud, or abuse. We are talking about alleged criminality at a breathtaking scale.
An additional characteristic of these fraudulent facilities is that all the windows are covered. Why would you cover all the windows? Because there’s nothing there. According to Luke, what’s inside is 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in Home Health, LLC, and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.
This building, this address, has billed taxpayers over $66 million over the last several years. If you try to track down what exactly is happening at any one of these home health care companies, what you will find is an endless rabbit hole. You’ll find years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, and an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they are making from Medicaid is just a side gig.
The government is not, and cannot be, monitoring the people to whom they write million-dollar checks. They all share a combination of just a few names, like Ahmad Mohammed and Mohamed Ahmed. And Columbus, Ohio, has the second-largest Somali population outside Minnesota. They spell their own name multiple different ways within a single document. Many of them have their birthdays listed as January 1 because their birthdates are unknown.
Pretty much all of them, according to Rosiak’s reporting, are registered voters.
The business model is apparently simple. A 40-year-old Somali gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mom. The middleman is one of these thousands of home health firms that have an “NPI” number necessary to bill Medicaid, and then the 40-year-old becomes an “employee” of that company.
But the only patient is Mom. There’s no way to verify whether he’s providing services unless his mom is willing to rat him out. Maybe he even gives her a portion of the pay as a kickback for allowing her Social Security number to be used. Apparently, all of these home health care companies are owned by foreigners.
When Rosiak asked what home health care companies did, he was threatened. “Journalists? Who cares? Do you guys pay my bills? I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.”
This is the way the magic works: Defraud our Medicaid systems. Defraud federal taxpayer dollars. And then, when somebody comes knocking on the door, they claim that they are a racist.
This poverty program differs from others, such as food stamps, because it doesn’t have a monetary cap. Its extent is not decided by politicians, but by any doctor willing to sign a form saying you could use some help around the home. And one doctor willing to sign and turn out enough of these forms can bankrupt a state.
How do we get this information? For decades, Medicaid billing data was a black box. It’s one of the biggest government programs in human history. The public could not see a dime of it.
That changed in February, when the DOJ quietly released data that many people missed. In one case, a landlord who owned buildings with 300 different Medicaid companies billed the federal government $250 million.
For Democrats, this is a feature, not a bug. You’d imagine that there would be Democrats out there who are upset with this kind of fraud. After all, if you’re an advocate for a government program, you should want every dollar of that taxpayer money to go to someone who deserves it.
But that’s not what’s happening. Democrats are irritated by the fact that people are uncovering this stuff. The good news for Ohio is its leadership: Republican Governor Mike DeWine is the governor, and Vivek Ramaswamy is very likely to be the next governor. And President Donald Trump is on top of this, and Vice President JD Vance is heading up the waste, fraud, and abuse policing.
That is what Americans need. We need accountability. We need prosecutions. We need doors kicked down. We need investigations.
Republican governors and federal officials need to fix this, and this is a unique time to do it. The Trump administration has made policing waste, fraud, and abuse possible. This was not going to happen under Democrats.
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