Alleged 'BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR' in fraud uncovered

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:01]An investigative report uncovering an alleged massive Medicaid fraud scheme disguised as a home health care businesses in Columbus, Ohio. Here's what one reporter found out found inside an office building linked to dozens of these companies.

[00:00:17]Smoke detectors chirp for new batteries.

[00:00:19]Office doors have signs suggesting the owner is out to lunch, even though the mail has been piling up. is as if months ago a supernatural phenomenon whisked [music] all life away without warning.

[00:00:30]>> The investigation found multiple red flags, including a politician tied to an 11 million part-time home health care company, a janitorial business rebranded as a health provider, billing nearly $100,000 in the first month. Even an accountant who lost his license for stealing public funds then opened a $7 million home health company using the address of a convicted money launderer's teenage son.

[00:01:01]H and according to public records more than 1.2 billion has been build for Medicaid certified home health agencies in 2024 and 2025 alone. Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiaak uncovered the story and joins us now.

[00:01:19]Great to see you this morning. Uh Luke, I wish we had so much more time. Uh anybody who has not read this report, I recommend you go find it and read it. It is truly shocking. How surprised were you by what you found?

[00:01:34]>> This is one of the most shocking things I've seen in 20 years of doing this. We haven't heard a lot about Doge lately, but they did something really important, which was release data about how Medicaid is spent. Um, that's a big portion of the federal budget. And it turns out that the new welfare queens aren't the people enrolled in poor uh poverty programs. They're the companies that get rich giving services.

[00:01:55]>> Um, states, including Ohio, the stuff we saw in Minnesota was mostly Medicaid in these waivers that they have. But even the red state of Ohio has waivers. I mean, originally it was supposed to allow nurses to come to old people's houses as an alternative to putting them in a nursing home. But the combination of looser policies and then Somali that pushed the limits has led to what I call the free butlers for Somali's program where these people are getting paid to hang out with their own family members.

[00:02:23]It's not a nurse. It's just a regular person that lives with them and as is their their family member. And they're getting paid just to hang out and and cook and even converse. And this cost a billion dollars a year just in Ohio.

[00:02:34]>> Yeah. So, it's not just taxpayers who are victims. It's also the patients who are victims and people are making tons of money on it. I want to read you the statement real quickly from uh the sitting governor Mike Dwine, longtime Republican from Ohio. He writes this.

[00:02:48]Upon review of this article, meaning your article, the article does not seem to allege any fraud in the details provided. Ohio's Medicaid's home and community based services exist to help individuals who can no longer safely perform daily tasks. Federal law requires these programs to cost less than institutional care and they consistently save taxpayer dollars versus other options such as skilled nursing home care. He's basically saying, you know, nothing to see here.

[00:03:16]Yeah. The hilarious thing is this is a five-part series in the Daily Wire and he responded to the overview and said, I didn't see enough facts to see fraud.

[00:03:23]like you didn't even read our story, dude. You got to keep checking back in the Daily Wire every day. Um, so before he's even read it, he says nothing to see here, which is which is um, you know, pretty interesting. You mentioned some of the anecdotes going into this.

[00:03:35]And, you know, if it's not fraud, it's waste. I mean, we shouldn't be paying people to hang out with their own family members. There's also fraud that's inherently unprovable because if it's not your family member, let's say you say you're going to some other old lady's house, well, how do we prove that you didn't go there unless we have cameras on everybody's house? So, that's what I'm concerned about is fraud that's impossible to prove is almost worse than anything else.

[00:03:57]>> Luke Rosiaak, go see his report at dailywire.com.

[00:04:01]Great reporting. Uh, keep it up. Thank you for joining us.

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