It Happens Here Too: Three Alaska Group Homes Now Facing Medicare Fraud Charges

Alaska is very different from the rest of the United States for several reasons, some of which don't become apparent until you've lived here for a while. There are the seasonal extremes, in both temperature and daylight hours. There are the unbelievably vast expanses of land that are utterly wild. 

The fishing's pretty good, too.

Unfortunately, one less desirable thing that the Great Land shares with the lower 48 appears to be Medicare fraud. Now, an Alaska grand jury has returned indictments on six people and three group-home companies for massive Medicare fraud.

Kyle Bates, Molly Bates and Peyton Love, along with Heritage Assisted Living Home LLC, Heritage Home LLC and Alaska Life Group Home LLC, face multiple counts of scheme to defraud, first-degree theft and medical assistance fraud. The indictment also includes one count of falsifying business records against the defendants.

Kyle and Molly Bates are additionally charged with second-degree criminal impersonation.

The allegations stem from the operation of Heritage Assisted Living Home LLC and Heritage Home LLC between July 2019 and November 2025. The Bateses owned the homes and ran them with Love’s assistance, according to the Department of Law. The Bateses formed Alaska Life Group Home LLC in 2024.

A joint investigation by the FBI and the Alaska Medicaid Fraud Control Unit found that the companies allegedly billed for services that were not provided, were inadequately staffed or lacked sufficient documentation, the department said.

This wasn't a penny-ante scheme, either. There may have been bigger fraud cases elsewhere, but it sure looks like these people wanted to make sure Alaska caught up. And they have been at it for some time; years, in fact.

Prosecutors allege the defendants fraudulently billed the Alaska Medicaid program $14,694,800.47 from July 2019 through November 2025.

Now, some people will tell you that Anchorage isn't "real" Alaska. We are in the habit of telling people coming up to visit that you aren't in "real" Alaska until you are past Big Lake Road. But this kind of despicable fraud, stealing from the taxpayers, diverting money intended to help the helpless, that's not only unworthy of Alaska, but it's also unworthy of the United States. And if it's happening in Anchorage, who's to say there aren't similar schemes in Fairbanks - or in any of the various remote communities?

There's something else. Isn't it interesting how similar all of these cases are? Set up a day-care center, or a group home, or a meals program, and the gravy train is in the station; all one has to do is claim clients that don't exist, meals served that weren't, children cared for that are strangely absent. It's almost enough to make one wonder if, somewhere in the murky depths of the dark web, someone is running classes on how to get rich quick courtesy of Uncle Sam. 

Occam's Razor would suggest an alternative: The systems the United States has set up are just too easy and shamelessly obvious to cheat. And these are also programs that many politicians, most often on the left, will fight bitterly to preserve just as they are: Made for cheating.

Sort of like our elections.

Editor’s Note: The American people overwhelmingly support President Trump’s law and order agenda.

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