Ten Home Health Firms, No One Shows Up
A reporter from NewsNation went to Maine and found something odd. A single office building in Portland lists about ten home health care companies as tenants. The landlord says most of them never show up.
That sounds simple. It isn’t. When you see many health firms at one address and no staff, alarm bells go off. Investigators say this pattern matches fraud schemes seen elsewhere.
Ron Nevins, who owns the building, described what he sees. “One guy I see coming and going, and the rest of them, I never see them, only when they pay their rent, if I’m here when they pay their rent,” said Ron Nevins. “They’re never here. Nobody’s over here, and then all of a sudden, if it was one or two or three or four, I’d be like, ‘OK.’ But when there’s 10, I’ve had as many as 12 or 13 probably before. You just wonder, what’s up with this health care thing? Why are so many people doing it all from foreign lands?”
NewsNation and local reporters checked other spots too. Some of the addresses tied to home health companies sit next to businesses that wire money overseas. That proximity worries people who study billing fraud.
One example stands out. One tenant in Nevins’ building, Five Star Home Health Care, overbilled MaineCare by nearly $400,000 according to state audit documents obtained by The Maine Wire. The owner then abandoned the office. That’s the kind of red flag auditors pay attention to.
Officials and watchdogs point to clusters of shell companies billing for services not provided. Similar patterns have been identified in other states, where large sums of taxpayer money were billed and later questioned.
Reporting like this doesn’t prove criminal intent. But it does show gaps in oversight. Lawmakers, auditors, and agencies often find suspicious billing only after money has been paid.
Local residents and small business owners want answers. So do state officials. The reporter’s visit adds pressure for clearer records and tougher checks.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Journalist finds $2M "home health" center in Maine located next to a SOMALI MONEY WIRING SERVICE
They don't even freaking hide it.
In one building, TEN businesses are home health. Nobody is ever there.
They are funded by our tax dollars. IT'S FRAUD.
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 21, 2026