This is part two of “Medicaid Millions,” a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious “personal services” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own family.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The front doors are open, but inside, the seven massive complexes appear to be largely abandoned. Smoke detectors chirp for new batteries. No one is there to change them. Some office doors have signs suggesting the owner is out to lunch, but the piles of mail outside tell a different story. Stray cats have taken up residence in the parking lots.

The government is under the impression that all of the office buildings hold thriving health care businesses.

The seven buildings along East Dublin Granville Road in Columbus, Ohio, are filled with hundreds of office suites, all owned by a company named Cordoba Real Estate. A large majority of the tenants in the buildings bill Medicaid, the taxpayer-funded medical program for the impoverished, as a “home health care” business that provides low-skilled, usually non-medical care to elderly or disabled people.

The Daily Wire has spent weeks analyzing Medicaid data released by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency in an effort to weed out wasteful government spending. The buildings owned by Cordoba stuck out, each housing dozens of businesses that bill Medicaid.

READ PART ONE: DW Investigation Reveals One Of The Biggest Government Waste Scandals Hiding In Plain Sight

In all, the Cordoba-owned buildings in Columbus housed 288 businesses registered with Medicaid, The Daily Wire investigation found. Together, they charged taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars between 2018 and 2024. That’s in a city where only 6,273 people 75 or older are on Medicaid.

The Medicaid program has exploded in Ohio thanks to a waiver that expanded the medical program to include wide-ranging at-home services such as “homemaking,” allowing taxpayer money to be spent for tasks such as making the bed or working on a hairdo.

Ohio has 3,700 companies with “Home Health” in their name, according to a review ofOhio business records. In particular, it’s blown up in Columbus, which is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States. The program has little oversight, with most of the so-called care happening inside individual homes, making it susceptible to fraud and abuse.

2700 East Dublin Granville, where 80 Medicaid companies billed $73 million.

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