Blaine man discovered responsible in $7M Medicaid fraud case

A Blaine man was convicted Tuesday in a Medicaid fraud case after his company, Promise Health Services, stole greater than $7 million that he reportedly used to fund a “lavish lifestyle.”

“Stealing money meant for poor people’s healthcare and using it to buy luxury cars and designer clothes is as shameful and disgraceful as it gets,” Attorney General Keith Ellison mentioned in an announcement. “I am committed to recovering as much of the money he stole from taxpayers as possible.”

Promise Health Services claimed to start out offering companies in July 2019 and over the following three years it billed Medicaid for roughly $7.7 million, in response to the criticism. But there was reportedly no medical documentation to justify the billing of greater than $7.2 million of that.

An investigation into the supplier discovered “a pervasive lack of documentation for billed medical services at Promise and, when documentation did exist, it was largely fraudulent,” Kailee Potocnik, of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, wrote within the criticism.

She mentioned she uncovered many types of fraud on the supplier, together with overbilled claims, individuals saying they didn’t obtain companies and recipients getting unlawful kickbacks.

An lawyer for Yusuf didn’t reply Tuesday to requests for remark.

Yusuf reportedly funneled greater than $1 million from the Promise Health Services enterprise account into his private account. He and his spouse, Lul Ahmed, 40, spent greater than $22,000 at furnishings shops, $42,000 at luxurious automotive sellers and $80,000 at luxurious clothes shops corresponding to Coach, Canada Goose and Michael Kors, the Attorney General’s Office mentioned in its announcement of the responsible verdicts.