August 18, 2017
Posted November 27, 2017
Godwin Oriakhi, the owner of five Houston-area home health agencies, was sentenced to 480 months in prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare and the State of Texas’ Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) and Primary Home Care (PHC) Programs of more than $17 million. The HCBS and PHC Programs provided qualified individuals with in-home attendant and community-based services that are known commonly as “provider attendant services.” (PAS). This case marks the largest PAS fraud case charged in Texas history. DOJ
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