Report finds 94 companies billing millions to Medicaid from a single building — governor says no fraud alleged

Nearly 100 companies located in a single Columbus office building billed taxpayers $66 million for Medicaid services over several years, according to a new report.

The Daily Wire reported that the building is home to 94 companies that are registered to bill Medicaid. Each company has a small office and is often designated with a sheet of paper revealing its generic company name ending in “Home Health LLC.”

Some even posted another sheet contending the employees had just stepped out for a break.

However, a spokesman for Republican Gov. Mike DeWine argued that the article does not appear to allege any fraud.

“Ohio Medicaid’s home and community-based services exist to help individuals who can no longer safely perform daily tasks, such as dressing, bathing, or eating, remain in their homes rather than enter far more expensive nursing facilities,” Dan Tierney, a spokesman for DeWine, told Ohio.News. “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.”

Tierney added, “Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place. These include Electronic Visit Verification for hourly care, requiring signed daily activity logs, conducting audits and surveys, performing background checks on providers, and reassessing medical needs regularly.”

Suspected fraud tied to Ohio’s public benefits programs in the Buckeye State, including Medicaid, has been in the spotlight in the wake of allegations in Minnesota, which, according to some estimates, have ballooned to $9 billion, garnered national headlines, and prompted Gov. Tim Walz to drop his bid for a third term.

Reports that “massive fraud is happening in plain sight” within Somali-led social service and welfare-related operations in Ohio have swirled for months. Mehek Cooke, an Ohio attorney and conservative commentator, previously said that fraud scandals in Minnesota are “just the tip of the spear” and has been sounding the alarm about similar malfeasance in Ohio.

🚨 In December, I exposed home health care fraud bleeding Ohio taxpayers dry.

Fake care, rubber-stamped paperwork, and alleged kickbacks are robbing seniors, disabled Ohioans, and working families.

I was told this is the “cost of doing business.”

I’m FREAKING FURIOUS. pic.twitter.com/wx6qWZKGgr

— Mehek Cooke🇺🇸 (@MehekCooke) May 4, 2026

Drive down Cleveland Avenue. 40 seconds. Endless home healthcare companies back to back. No services or accountability.

The Governor called it "the cost of doing business."

Ohio families call it theft. I saw it first with @ThomasMHern. Now it's a national story.

— Mehek Cooke🇺🇸 (@MehekCooke) May 4, 2026

Earlier this year, as the Somali fraud scandal probe widened, federal investigators say more than $130 million in bulk cash has been tracked leaving the Columbus, Ohio, airport bound for Minnesota. That’s on top of recent reports that Transportation Security Administration agents detected nearly $700 million in cash in luggage leaving the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2024 and 2025.

Separately, last week, state officials said they identified nearly 56,000 suspicious out‑of‑state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program transactions in the past six months, totaling more than $6.3 million.

According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services’ fraud analytics team, Pennsylvania currently accounts for 35% of suspicious activity, the largest share of any state. At 26%, New York ranked second, followed by Illinois at 19% and New Jersey at 10%.

Additionally, at the start of the year, the Ohio Department of Children and Youth launched “integrity reviews” of the state’s publicly funded child care programs. Assistant Deputy Director, Contracts and Monitoring, Matthew Cunningham, sent a letter to “Programs Participating in Ohio’s Publicly Funded Child Care Program” ordering them to prepare the information that agency personnel would collect.