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FBI Searches Office Of Minnesota HHA

Published on Fri Feb 04, 2011

Medicaid's home health fraud hunt is showing more results. In Minnesota, the FBI has searched the Golden Valley office of Universal Home Health Care owned by Shukri Adan, reports the local Fox 9 News station. The search of the Minneapolis-area office was part of a Medicaid fraud case, the FBI confirmed to the station. In Minnesota, "the U.S. Attorney's Office is ... participating in a task force with the Minnesota Attorney General Office's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that focuses on home health care fraud," the FBI recently said in a release. The task force includes the FBI, HHS Office of Inspector General, the IRS, and other law enforcement partners. In 2007, Adan told Fox 9 in an interview that the home care industry there was corrupt and filled with providers offering bribes and kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries, the news station says.
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