Attorney General Jeff Jackson reached a $4,711,159 consent judgment with Steven Osbey of Kernersville for fraud against the state’s 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 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. These “in-home physician visits” each allegedly lasted approximately 60 minutes, and on various dates Reign & Inspirations billed more than 100 such client visits in a day by one doctor. In total, Reign & Inspirations billed more than 30,000 hours of these physician visits during the time frame above. Previously, Shabazz pleaded guilty for his role in this healthcare fraud scheme as part of a parallel criminal investigation and prosecution. Shabazz was sentenced to 52 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $4,711,159.