Oregon — Versa Force LLC, the Washington company that enticed homeless people to move into a Portland house, free of charge, and required Oregon residents to fraudulently enroll in Washington’s Medicaid program for nightly Zoom counseling sessions with a nurse practitioner in Texas, is not where it says it is. It’s not in the Vancouver strip mall its website claims is its place of business. The Vancouver address the company required its Oregon residents to use in applying for Washington benefits, despite never having lived there, is the longtime home of a homeless shelter, where staff has never heard of Versa Force.
Meanwhile, the Versa Force-operated house located on the leafy, suburban cul-de-sac Tippitt Place continues to operate, according to two neighbors, one of whom told Oregon Roundup Foundation they keep their distance from the house, calling it “weird.” No one answered the door at the Versa Force house itself.
ORF’s exclusive reporting, including interviews with two former residents of Versa Force’s house on Tippitt Place in Portland, uncovered the company’s practice of giving Portland area homeless people a place to live, so long as they helped the company defraud Medicaid by applying for Washington benefits, using an address they had never lived at, and forcing them out of the house when they asked questions about the practice…