MINNEAPOLIS (Valley News Live) — Two Twin Cities men have admitted to running a scheme that siphoned more than $500,000 from Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, according to federal prosecutors.
According to federal prosecutors, Hassan Ahmed Hussein, 29, and Ahmed Abdirashid Mohamed, 28, set up a company called Pristine Health LLC and got it enrolled as a Medicaid provider, promising to help people with disabilities — including seniors and people struggling with mental illness or substance use — find and keep stable housing. Instead, court documents show the pair billed Medicaid for services that were never delivered, padding other claims to pull in bigger reimbursements.
Pristine Health signed up roughly 90 Medicaid recipients for the program, some of whom never agreed to receive any services at all. By the time it was over, the company had billed the state more than $820,000…