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The House Oversight Committee is officially turning up the heat on what could become one of the largest Medicaid fraud scandals in American history.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Rep. Brandon Gill have launched a sweeping federal investigation into alleged rampant abuse of Ohio’s Medicaid system after explosive reports revealed suspicious billing patterns centered around two ZIP codes near Columbus, Ohio, an area home to one of the largest Somali populations in the United States.
According to reports cited by House Republicans, a state audit found that Franklin County, home to just 11.5% of Ohio’s population, accounted for roughly 38% to 40% of the $1.6 billion spent statewide, with nearly 40% of that amount flowing to just two neighboring ZIP codes, totaling approximately $240 million.
Auditors also identified a 15.6% error rate in eligibility determinations, raising concerns that improper payments could range from $800 million to as much as $4 billion.
Additional reporting uncovered nearly vacant office buildings allegedly housing hundreds of billing companies. Ohio officials have since brought charges against some providers and maintain that safeguards are in place, while both state investigators and a federal task force continue to examine the potential fraud.
The Oversight Committee announced a brand-new task force specifically aimed at exposing institutional abuses, fraud, and misuse of taxpayer-funded social welfare programs, with Gill tapped to lead the charge.
“Representative Brandon Gill is a star on the Oversight Committee and has exposed the insanity of the Radical Left who seeks to undermine fundamental American values protected under our Constitution. I am happy to announce Representative Gill as the new chairman of our Task Force to support the preservation of constitutional rights enjoyed by the American People. Under his leadership, we will continue to expose radical ideologies being pushed on Americans and fight to safeguard our freedom that we’ve enjoyed as a nation for 250 years,” saidChairman Comer.
“Americans deserve truth, transparency, and justice,” said Task Force Chairman Gill. “They are sick of being defrauded by government institutions and programs that should have been putting them first, not robbing their tax dollars. It is my great honor to chair the Oversight Committee’s new Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses. It is a great privilege and responsibility to carry on this extension of the work Chairman Comer and the committee is doing to fight for integrity and freedom for all.” Today, Chairman Comer and Task Force Chairman Gill sent a letter to Ohio Department of Medicaid Director Scott Partika requesting documents and informationto kick off the Task Force’s oversight by investigating the massive Ohio Medicaid fraud recently exposed by the Daily Wire. Recent reporting indicates that there is significant fraud in Ohio’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waiver program, including providers improperly billing Medicaid or billing for services that were clearly never provided with little to no consequence.
Gill blasted the alleged fraud scheme and warned Americans may be looking at “billions of dollars” stolen from taxpayers.
“What we’ve found with this Ohio fraud scandal is that we’ve got what we believe to be billions of dollars that have been defrauded from American taxpayers that should have been going to benefit the American people,” Gill said.
“And instead, we’re being laundered through a wide variety of shell companies that we’re facilitating as intermediaries to facilitate payments to organizations that weren’t providing any type of health care.”
WATCH:
IT’S OFFICIAL: The House Oversight Committee has launched an all-out investigation into RAMPANT Somali-linked fraud in Ohio, after an auditor found possibly billions of Medicaid theft, concentrated in 2 zip codes near Columbus
BRANDON GILL is leading it
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