Luke Rosiak
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But when you go in, it's really obvious.
The place is deserted.
It's downright creepy.
There is no one in any of the offices.
They're dark.
Curtains are drawn.
Some of them have notes that are like, we'll be back in a few minutes.
This building right behind me has 22 different home and community-based healthcare companies registered in the building.
It's only four floors.
I walked in there yesterday trying to find a number of them.
Many of them appear to be just window fronts, door fronts, with nobody behind.
Hi, Nicole.
Well, we're finding the same patterns here in Maine that we did find in Minnesota.
We were tipped off that it's actually happening here in Portland, in Lewiston, where we are now, that there's these zombie offices, clusters of home health care businesses in the same location, which is potentially a red flag for fraud.
But take a look.
We're here in Portland, Maine at an office building, nondescript office building.
We found of the businesses that are registered in here, of the 20-something businesses, 10 of them are home health care businesses.
We're going to go take a look.
As you can see, Prestige Home Care, Bright Star Home Care, Atlanta Community Support, Five Stars Home Health Care, Prime Home Care, LLC.
They're all home health cares.