Federal prosecutors have charged eight defendants in an alleged $38 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving two Brooklyn social adult day care centers: APNA Adult Daycare and Ashiana Social Adult Daycare, according to the New York Post.
The reported indictment alleges that Medicaid recipients were paid cash kickbacks to enroll, recruiters were paid to bring in beneficiaries, and the centers then billed New York Medicaid for services that were not actually provided. Prosecutors also reportedly allege fake sign-in sheets, Pakistan-based billing support, and shell-company transfers labeled as “gifts,” “dividends,” “medicine,” or “laddu.”
For Find Corporate Waste, the relevance is the public-funds mechanism: Medicaid claims allegedly tied to false attendance, kickback-driven enrollment, and non-rendered services.
That is the same fraud structure FCW tracks across taxpayer-funded health care programs, including provider eligibility, billing integrity, ownership/control relationships, and public-payment exposure.
The case also fits a broader enforcement pattern. DOJ previously announced guilty pleas in a $68 million Brooklyn adult day care fraud scheme and charged two Queens men in an alleged $120 million adult day care and pharmacy fraud scheme.
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