Luke Rosiak

The family member of an elderly person isn't set up to bill Medicaid, so a company stands in the middle.

He said the number of hours depends on a doctor's recommendation, but it's often an hour a day.

I asked him why people wouldn't simply help their aging parents with basic tasks out of human decency.

Of the five buildings in Columbus with the most Medicaid companies, three are owned by the New Jersey-based Cordoba Real Estate Group, LLC, registered by Israel Izzy Steinberg and Isaac Nassar, who lives in a $4.5 million mansion in New Jersey and showed off his sports car and one of his two airplanes online.

Altogether, Cordoba Real Estate Group owns seven buildings in the area during the time of the Medicaid payments released by the federal government.

These seven buildings are filled with nearly 300 Medicaid firms.

Almost all the tenants in these buildings are Medicaid businesses who provide low-skilled, usually non-medical care for elderly or disabled people.

The front doors are open, but inside, the seven massive complexes are as abandoned as a post-apocalyptic horror scene.

So now we found Horizon Home Healthcare.

This received five million dollars.

Meg Adazeriri is the owner.

Five million dollars over a couple years, but it's just a closet.

There's nobody here.

Smoke detectors chirp for new batteries.

Office doors have signs suggesting the owner is out to lunch, even though the mail has been piling up.

It's as if months ago, a supernatural phenomenon whisked all life away without warning.

The United States government is under the impression that all these buildings hold thriving businesses.

In all, Cordoba houses 288 businesses registered with Medicaid, which charged taxpayers more than a quarter billion dollars between 2018 and 2024.

Collectively, they made 5.5 million Medicaid claims using billing codes that are essentially unverifiable because the service happens in the privacy of a patient's home.

No windows on the outside helps hide the fact that there's nobody inside.