Attorney General Jeff Jackson Reaches $4.7 Million Medicaid Fraud Settlement

RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson reached a $4,711,159 consent judgment with Steven Osbey of Kernersville for fraud against the state’s Medicaid program. “If health care providers try to game the system to pocket millions in taxpayer dollars, they should know that we’re going to come after them,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “I’m fighting to protect our Medicaid program.” The North Carolina Attorney General’s Medicaid Investigations Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), jointly investigated Reign & Inspirations, LLC, a behavioral health company co-owned and operated by Osbey and Aljihad Shabazz. Reign & Inspirations allegedly billed the North Carolina Medicaid program for physician home visits (“house calls”) that never occurred. Between 2017 and 2020, Reign & Inspirations allegedly submitted false reimbursement claims to the North Carolina Medicaid program for services to Medicaid beneficiaries that were never provided.

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