The Justice Department charged 19 Illinoisans, three of them from Chicago, with various healthcare fraud schemes Tuesday, as part of a large-scale investigation that yielded charges against more than 450 people in numerous schemes across the country.
In one case, Daniel Robinson, 51, from Palos Park, is accused of defrauding Illinois Medicaid through filing false claims for behavioral health counseling and therapy services that were never provided.
Since January 2024, Robinson’s company, ODA Solutions, an Oak Lawn methadone clinic, has billed Illinois Medicaid more than $95 million and has been paid about $75 million, according to the Justice Department. He allegedly told others in his company to create fake medical records and bill them for counseling services that were not provided, including for some patients who had died…