Overview
- House Oversight named Rep. Brandon Gill to chair a new task force and opened an inquiry by requesting documents from the Ohio Department of Medicaid.
- The request follows a Daily Wire report that 288 home‑health companies in Columbus shared addresses and billed more than $250 million between 2018 and 2024.
- Comer and Gill argued in their letter that weak controls over Home and Community‑Based Services let providers bill improperly and put vulnerable patients at risk.
- HCBS waivers use federal money but are run by states to deliver care in homes and communities, which creates many small providers and makes tracking billing abuses harder.
- The task force is authorized for six months, plans hearings, and will also examine illegal DEI policies, misuse of immigration and social programs, and efforts to curb political speech, while Ohio’s Medicaid agency says it already had safeguards and ongoing probes.