House Oversight task force targets alleged Ohio Medicaid fraud in new probe
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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are creating a new oversight task force to start with an investigation into alleged social services fraud in Ohio.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has tapped Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, a member of the oversight panel, to lead the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Corporate Abuses, Fox News Digital has learned.
The two sent a letter to Ohio Department of Medicaid Director Scott Partika on Tuesday, requesting documents related to a bombshell report. daily Wire, We are investigating widespread fraud in the state’s Medicaid waiver program for home health and community-based services.
The publication reported on 288 home health companies sharing the same addresses in Columbus, Ohio; dozens of them were located in office buildings that appeared vacant or in poor condition. The organizations billed the federal government for more than $250 million in Medicaid spending between 2018 and 2024; but the organization’s reports cast doubt on whether the companies were accurately billing Medicaid or providing services.
Representative Brandon Gill watches a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. (Getty Images)
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“Americans deserve truth, transparency and justice,” Gill said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital. “They are tired of being ripped off by government agencies and programs that should be putting them first instead of stealing their tax dollars.”
“Under his leadership, we will continue to expose the radical ideologies imposed on Americans and fight to preserve the freedom we have enjoyed as a nation for 250 years,” Comer said in a statement, adding that freshman lawmaker Gill has become a key player on the Oversight Committee.
Gill’s task force will have a broad scope, including investigating institutions that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, individuals who abuse immigration and welfare programs, and efforts by foreign actors and dark money groups to censor the speech of Americans.
The creation of the panel comes as House Oversight Republicans are currently investigating welfare fraud in Minnesota and California.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., tapped Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, to lead a new oversight panel focused on social services fraud, among other priorities. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“The current Medicaid system either lacks adequate internal controls to prevent and detect fraud or fails to provide appropriate oversight of these HCBS.” [Home and Community-Based Services] “As a result, vulnerable patients are being exploited while Americans across the country are paying the price for this fraud,” Comer and Gill wrote in the letter.
Comer authorized the task force for six months, and Gill is expected to hold a hearing at a later date.
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has promised to examine the state’s Medicaid spending if elected governor in November.
“We’re going to have to take a hard, hard look at how the more than $40 billion in state Medicaid funds is being spent,” Ramaswamy told “Saturday in America” host Kayleigh McEnany.
Vivek Ramaswamy, seen speaking at Turning Point USA AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix on December 19, 2025, is running for governor of Ohio. (Jon Cherry/AP)
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“I think the correct answer is all kinds of waste, fraud, abuse…[s] They will be prosecuted, and we intend to investigate them aggressively and also aggressively prosecute them to send a deterrent signal that our government is not a piggy bank. “The taxpayer is not a piggy bank to be fooled.”
The Ohio Department of Medicaid told the Daily Wire that it has adequate security measures in place to combat fraud and that the agency was investigating home health companies that may have been abusing the system before reporting.
