Ohio healthcare fraud investigations reveal multi-million dollar Medicaid and Medicare schemes

Ohio authorities and federal investigators have uncovered significant healthcare fraud and money laundering schemes targeting Medicaid and Medicare.

Six Medicaid providers in Ohio have been indicted for allegedly stealing $558,383. Among those indicted is Rasheedah Biles, owner of Reset Tomorrow, who is accused of directing employees to inflate claims for children in after-school programs and foster care. Other defendants are accused of billing for services while working other jobs or while clients were hospitalized or deceased. This follows a separate indictment of a former central Ohio couple, Roberta Acheampong and Godfred Owusu-Sekyere, who allegedly defrauded the program of $9.3 million through their clinic, One Community Mental Health.

In a related development, Eldar Zarbavel of Pepper Pike, Ohio, pleaded guilty to laundering approximately $3.4 million for a transnational criminal organization. The group, linked to Russia, orchestrated a multi-billion-dollar scheme to exploit Medicare and private insurers. As part of ‘Operation Gold Rush,’ Zarbavel is the 16th individual convicted in the investigation, which has charged 35 people to date for using fraudulent durable medical equipment companies and shell corporations to disguise the origin of stolen funds.