Dr. Oz Drops Into Ohio To Crack Down On Medicaid Fraud Identified By Daily Wire

Just weeks after the Daily Wire’s investigation into Medicaid fraud in Ohio, the Trump administration arrived at the epicenter of the scandal in Columbus to start shutting the fraudsters down.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, personally traveled to Columbus, and rattled off findings from our investigation into abuse of the “home health care” program, which accounts for billions of dollars in Medicaid spending.

From outside of a company that was caught defrauding the government through home health, Dr. Oz said his team confirmed the Daily Wire report about a cluster of hundreds of home health companies in seven office buildings on one street in Columbus.

“We also identify 288 Medicaid registered home health aid companies operating out of just seven office buildings along one nearby road,” Dr. Oz said. “Some of these buildings are nearly vacant. Home health care and personal care services have become the subject of nearly all of the recent fraud prosecutions in Ohio.”

Fraudsters have been treating Medicaid like a piggy bank, but it ends now.

Ohio is showing what happens when data meets accountability. We followed the money and caught the crooks.

And we’re not done yet. See you again soon, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/Z1FMxI3gQl

— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) May 30, 2026

The seven buildings containing 288 companies that billed a quarter-billion dollars worth of Medicaid payments were identified by The Daily Wire after Dr. Oz’s agency released data on Medicaid expenditures.

READ MORE: Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million

Those buildings are all owned by a New Jersey-based landlord, Cordoba, and illustrate just how much of the economy in Columbus has been replaced with Medicaid businesses.

Even Cordoba expressed concern with the findings.

“The questions you’re raising about how Ohio’s Medicaid dollars are being used and abused are certainly legitimate ones,” a spokesman for the real estate company said. “After your reporting surfaced, Cordoba proactively contacted the Ohio Auditor of State and offered its full cooperation with any investigation.”

As was noted by Dr. Oz, the suspicious Medicaid businesses are clustered in a neighborhood that is home to one of the country’s largest Somali immigrant communities.

“I’m in Columbus, Ohio, it’s home to the second largest Somali population in the entire United States, after Minneapolis,” Dr. Oz said. “Franklin County, where we are now, by itself accounts more than a third of the billion and a half dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. That is three times more than what would be expected.”

“Now process that statistic: the corruption is so widespread here that over a third of the entire state’s home health care budget goes to this county, which is three times more than you expect,” Dr. Oz said.

The Daily Wire’s series, Medicaid Millions, is still in progress, yet numerous top government officials have already taken action. Part 5 of the series is set to drop next week.

Dr. Oz pledged that this is just the beginning of the crackdown on fraud.

“If we do this the right way, people will stop using Medicaid as a piggy bank,” he said. “Vice President [JD] Vance, who’s from Ohio, wants the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force coming after fraudsters everywhere with everything we have.”

On Wednesday, a new congressional task force created by the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on Ohio home health care fraud, where I will testify on what I found in Ohio.