Ninety-four Medicaid companies registered to a single Ohio address billed taxpayers $66 million. One woman reportedly renamed her janitorial company, began billing Medicaid $100,000 in her first month, eventually reached $650,000 a month, and then left the country.
Wednesday, House Oversight's new Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses held its first hearing to examine what witnesses say could be more than $1.2 billion in fraud in Ohio's Medicaid home-health program.
🔴 LIVE! @RepBrandonGill leads his first task force hearing exposing Medicaid fraud.
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 3, 2026
We’re investigating a billion-dollar scheme in Ohio where shell companies billed taxpayers for services never provided. Tune in! https://t.co/HIHyu4gU22
Task Force Chairman Brandon Gill (TX-26) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) launched the investigation May 13 after Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak published a series on northeast Columbus, where storefront after storefront billed federal Medicaid dollars for home-health services that showed signs of fraud.
94 companies registered to one address in Ohio.
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 3, 2026
Abandoned office spaces.
One janitor who renamed her LLC and started cashing in $100K in the first month and up to $650k/month before leaving the country.
Fraud is real. We are exposing it and ensuring accountability happens. pic.twitter.com/ZKxXHj8AZg
Rosiak testified that one building at 6161 Busch Boulevard contained those 94 companies. Some offices displayed "stepped out to lunch" signs while months of unopened mail piled up behind the doors.
Public records also led Rosiak to True Home Healthcare, which he testified was operated by a man with three fraud convictions and a wife with three theft convictions. He also cited Omega Home Health, incorporated by the wife of a felon previously convicted of billing the government for nonexistent elder-care services. Medicaid paid the company $6 million while the husband remained delinquent on court-ordered restitution.
"The rewards for abusing this system are unfathomable, and the mechanisms to stop abuse seemingly deliberately nonexistent."
Ohio Auditor Keith Faber told lawmakers his office has identified more than $9 billion in unsupported or fraudulent public expenditures since he took office, with Medicaid and unemployment programs representing the largest areas of concern. His latest State Single Audit found a 15.6 percent ineligibility rate and up to $4.4 billion in fraud-related exposure tied to Ohio Medicaid programs.
Faber testified that his office identified more than $455 million in Medicaid benefits paid to ineligible recipients in 2020. In 2022, auditors found $118.5 million tied to duplicate or improper payments involving prison inmates and deceased individuals.
Ohio also spent approximately $146 million implementing an Electronic Visit Verification system, known as EVV, which Congress required to verify home-care visits before taxpayer dollars are paid out. Faber testified that providers frequently bypassed the system.
"Our audit found that approximately 56 percent of home care services were not processed through the EVV system, representing an estimated $1.1 billion of nearly $2 billion in paid claims that were not matched to an EVV visit."
Faber's March 2024 concurrent-enrollment audit found more than 124,000 individuals were enrolled in Ohio Medicaid and at least one other state's Medicaid program for three consecutive months. Ohio paid managed-care organizations more than $1 billion associated with those enrollees. Faber testified that the findings exposed broader weaknesses involving interstate data sharing, delayed reporting, and limited real-time monitoring.
Ohio State Rep. Michael Dovilla (R-17th) described a separate investigation that began after a constituent contacted his office about Medicaid eligibility verification. Vendors told Dovilla they had flagged recipients whose assets appeared to exceed eligibility limits. When his office asked what happened to those cases, he testified that state officials could not provide clear answers.
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Dovilla introduced House Bill 356 in June 2025, which requires expanded auditing and data sharing between the Ohio Department of Medicaid and the Auditor of State. The provision ultimately became law.
OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, told RedState in an email: "Thanks to Auditor Faber's leadership, nearly $9 billion has already been identified in waste, fraud, and abuse in Ohio. No 'whole of government' effort can frankly happen without SFOF's 42 fighters on the ground."
The hearing's lone Democratic witness, Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, argued Republicans bear responsibility because they have controlled Ohio state government for 15 consecutive years. Antonio also criticized the 2025 elimination of the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee, which had been examining contracts involving Gainwell Technologies, the nation's largest Medicaid claims processor.
"If there is fraud in Medicaid, it has happened on the Republican Majority's watch. Perhaps it is time to clean Ohio's house."
The hearing's sharpest exchange came when Gill asked Antonio whether Somali immigration had been good for Ohio. Antonio responded that the rhetoric surrounding the hearing had nearly moved her to tears and objected to the line of questioning.
WATCH: Ohio Democrat State Senator Nickie Antonio has a FULL meltdown after being asked a very simple question.@RepBrandonGill: “Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?”
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 3, 2026
Senator Antonio: *proceeds to throw a tantrum* pic.twitter.com/nVocxzLojF
Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04) later defended the investigation and argued critics were attempting to shut down scrutiny of the program.
The Democrats' playbook is clear.@Jim_Jordan lays it out: "That's how the left operates ... the left will tell a lie ... big media will report ... big tech will amplify. You tell the truth. They call you racist."
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 3, 2026
People are not buying it. Ohio deserves better. pic.twitter.com/sHl6EFKtNd
Faber has been filing reports on this since 2019. The state kept paying.
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