BLS did not separate out health care and social assistance violence, nor have they updated these numbers post COVID.  The social assistance sector has done little, but health care employers are taking measures to protect their employees.  We do know from BLS 2024 fatality data that health care workplace deaths have fallen by 25% while social services deaths have not changed significantly since COVID.  Fatalities in each employee category are less than 1% of overall workplace deaths, so the health care industry problem appears to be injuries, rather than homicides.  Most workplace deaths appear to be due to motor vehicle accidents, in any event.

The latest effort from Michigan Medical's Sparrow operation:

https://www.wilx.com/2026/05/14/university-michigan-health-sparrow-expands-panic-button-program-home-care-workers/

https://www.bls.gov/iif/factsheets/workplace-violence-2021-2022.htm

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm

University of Michigan Health-Sparrow expands panic button program to home care workers
Violence against healthcare workers is on the rise across the country and UM Health-Sparrow is among the hospitals scrambling to keep their staff safe.
By Bobby Cushing - May 13, 2026

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Violence against health care workers in the United States has seen a sharp increase in recent years, but at University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, something is being done about it.

The hospital system gives out wearable panic buttons for hospital staff to use when they feel unsafe. Now, that program is expanding to staff who work outside of the hospital’s walls.

The button sits behind a worker’s badge and can be tapped in seconds. Thousands of workers already have the button on them, and more than 250 have used it in the last 10 months. Now, members of the hospice and home care team are getting panic buttons of their own.

A hospital is already a high-intensity workplace, with workers spending long hours performing life-saving work. But there is a growing trend of violence against those workers.

A poll from the American College of Emergency Physicians found in 2024, 91% of emergency physicians said they or a coworker were threatened or attacked within the year.

“Some people just don’t call. They deal with it on a day-to-day basis. You know, our clinicians every day deal with things like this in the hospital,” said Chris Nemets, the Regional Chief Nursing Informatics Officer for Michigan Medicine.

To combat this trend, last year the hospital introduced panic buttons, giving workers an option to call for help if they feel unsafe or need assistance. Now those same buttons are being made available to hospice and home care teams.

“If there was a need within a home that they are in, because they go in and out of community homes, that they could call somebody and alert in an easy, discreet way,” Nemets said.

Nemets said the buttons stay out of the way until they are needed.

“And it’s a button that looks just like this that goes right behind your badge. It’s very discreet,” she said. “It’s silent, and it alerts our public safety department that there’s an incident going on.”

“They feel safer if they have a way to call somebody for help. If they get backed up into a corner, what are they going to do? Well, now, they have a duress button on their bodies,” Nemets said.

Nemets said even more workers at Michigan Health could soon get panic buttons of their own, but there is no time frame for that right now.

According to internal data from the University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, those panic buttons saw the highest rate of use in the emergency and behavioral health departments.

NFED is a newly established division within the U.S. Department of Justice focused on investigating and prosecuting fraud against taxpayer dollars and taxpayer-funded programs. It centralizes existing fraud enforcement resources and aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of fraud investigations nationwide.

The WOOD Radio report includes images of Sen. Nesbitt's letter, and links important resources, at its site.

https://wtkg.iheart.com/featured/wood-radio-local-news/content/2026-05-01-senator-nesbitt-seeks-federal-probe-into-possible-medicaid-fraud/

Senator Nesbitt seeks federal probe into possible Medicaid fraud

James Gemmell    |    May 1, 2026

LANSING, Mich. -- Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt is asking the National Fraud Endowment Division to probe possible cases of Medicaid fraud in Michigan.

He says red flags were raised after an investigative report was released that tracked sharp upticks in Medicaid billings beginning in 2022, plus other expenditures.

"Three years ago, Democrats took full control of the Legislature - and Governor Whitmer - they blew through a historic $9 billion surplus," Nesbitt said in an interview on the West Michigan Live program. "They wasted it on liberal pork projects, bloated government, handouts to global corporations for jobs that just never showed up."

Nesbitt speaking there to WOOD Radio WML host Justin Barclay.

More details were provided in a news release

Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt on Wednesday requested the U.S. Department of Justice’s newly established National Fraud Endowment Division look into possible cases of Medicaid fraud in Michigan under the objectives of the National Task Force to Eliminate Fraud established by President Donald Trump and chaired by Vice President JD Vance.

“We want to make sure this money is available so people who truly deserve these resources can get the support they need,” said Nesbitt, R-Porter Township. “That is exactly why we must also make sure fraudsters who make a career of gaming these systems are held accountable. We are not going to stop asking the questions that need to be asked to protect taxpayer dollars.”

Nesbitt said serious red flags that prompted his request included a recent investigative report that tracked sharp upticks in Medicaid billings following changes implemented by Democrats after they took control of both legislative chambers in 2022 and a March report by Michigan’s independent Auditor General that found the state’s Department of Health and Human Services failed for more than seven years to sufficiently monitor an $82 million contract with a private pharmacy benefits manager administering drug rebates for Medicaid.

“Taxpayers deserve assurance that Medicaid dollars are protected against waste, fraud and abuse, and that criminals who siphon from this system are held accountable to the full extent of the law,” Nesbitt wrote in a letter to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald. “President Trump and Vice President Vance are leading the fight to combat widespread fraud and restore accountability in this system.”

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https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/13/planned-parenthood-clinics-state-funding/90066532007/

Planned Parenthood: Michigan clinics will close if state doesn't provide $5M
Without a $5 million allocation from the state, Planned Parenthood says it will have to close further locations in Michigan.
By Arpan Lobo - May 13, 2026

Planned Parenthood of Michigan says it will have to close more abortion clinics in the state if it does not receive a one-time, $5 million allocation from the state. The organization is calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to take action, although budgetary process constraints could make the request difficult to fulfill.

During a media call Wednesday, May 13, the organization's leaders said cuts to federal funding for abortion services and reproductive health care under President Donald Trump's administration threaten clinics in Michigan. Without a one-time allocation of $5 million from the state, the organization will have to close additional locations in Michigan, Paula Thornton Greear, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan, said in a letter to Whitmer sent Wednesday.

It's not immediately clear what funding pool Whitmer could allocate funds to Planned Parenthood from. Typically, state dollars are earmarked for spending through the budget process, when the governor and each chamber of the Michigan Legislature hash out a spending plan. Any supplemental spending would also have to go through the Legislature, where Democrats control the Senate and Republicans control the House. It's not likely the House would support state funding for Planned Parenthood.

"Gov. Whitmer is one of the country's greatest champions for reproductive freedom. Under the Michigan Constitution, the Legislature has the responsibility to allocate state funds," Stacey LaRouche, Whitmer's press secretary, told the Detroit Free Press over email Wednesday. "We would encourage any organization or individual to work with the Legislature on their budget asks."

Thornton Greear said other governors have maneuvered one-time funding to their Planned Parenthood affiliates, noting a $4 million earmark for Planned Parenthood in Illinois authorized by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

"We urge the governor to pursue every pathway," Thornton Greear said, calling for "urgency and creativity."

"The specific mechanism matters less than the outcome at this point."

Currently, Planned Parenthood has 10 health centers in Michigan where patients can receive reproductive healthcare, including medication and in-clinic abortions. The group closed health centers in Jackson, Marquette and Petoskey and consolidated its two Ann Arbor locations last year, also citing cuts in federal funding.

Grant funding through the federal Title X program has undergone a shift since Trump returned to office for a second, non-consecutive term early last year. Title X provides federal funding for family planning for low-income and uninsured individuals, according to KFF, and hundreds of abortion providers throughout the country rely on the funding.

In March, Democrats in Congress warned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in a letter that providers would face a funding cliff under changes to grant guidelines made by the department, NPR reported.

Thornton Greear said Wednesday a $5 million allocation from the state would cover services through October, when the next round of Title X funding is expected. But Planned Parenthood of Michigan cannot afford to hang on that long, and Michiganders would lose access to reproductive care without state relief, she said.

"Without state action, we will be forced to make decisions about our footprint that cannot be undone," Thornton Greear told reporters.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/white-house-cuts-billions-california-medicaid-00919351

White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has repeatedly targeted the state over hospice care.
By Robert King - May 13, 2026

The Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California for failing to combat fraud, escalating a feud with the state over its management of hospice care.

“The state of California has not taken fraud very seriously,” said Vice President JD Vance during a press conference Wednesday at the White House.

Though the administration has repeatedly criticized California’s fraud oversight, this is the first time the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has targeted payments to the state. In recent months it has withheld more than $300 million in Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota for suspect claims.

Medicaid is a joint federal-state partnership. California has already paid providers serving the low-income patients in the program. CMS will not pay the federal government’s share unless the state meets the agency’s requirements for showing eligible patients actually received services. The state did not immediately return a request for comment on CMS’ action.

CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz said at the press conference the $1.3 billion is the agency’s largest deferral ever, though it’s a small portion of California’s total federal Medicaid funding. CMS reimbursed California more than $92 billion in fiscal 2024, according to the most recent data.

“We would like the state to come to the table to explain to us how these outlier payments have been generated,” he said.

Oz has repeatedly targeted hospice fraud in California, especially in Los Angeles. “There aren’t that many people dying in Los Angeles,” he said. “We believe half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent.”

CMS recently suspended payments to 800 hospice facilities in California and less than 20 have complained, which Oz said means his agency is “on the right track.”

The agency is also asking every state’s Medicaid fraud control unit to detail their actions combating fraud. Vance said units in some states are not doing enough to combat fraud, despite getting federal funding.

At some point, Michigan will face scrutiny and punishment for our single year $ 350 million surge in Medicaid payments.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-halting-medicare-enrollments-new-home-healthcare-hospice-providers-2026-05-13/

• Move is part of Vance task force on healthcare scams
• Pause will give government time to scrutinize accounts
• Fraud crackdown began in Minnesota

May 13 (Reuters) - The Trump administration will block new home healthcare and hospice providers from enrolling in Medicare for at least the next six months, according ​to a government statement posted on Wednesday, citing concerns about widespread fraud.

The moratorium will temporarily bar new providers in those categories from signing up for reimbursement ‌from Medicare, a U.S. government health insurance program for Americans aged 65 and older and those with disabilities. It will not impact providers already registered with Medicare, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees the program.

It is the latest move by Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force that aims to crack down on healthcare scams.

The U.S. government has for years tried to tackle fraudulent ​payments from Medicare to hospice and home healthcare providers.

Scammers can bill Medicare for hospice or home healthcare services that the patient doesn't need or want, allowing ​them to rake in millions of dollars from the U.S. government. The national fraud prevention group Senior Medicare Patrol has repeatedly issued ⁠alerts on the issue.

CMS has paused enrollments in the past in specific counties when staff suspected fraud, including in 2013, when it barred new providers based in Florida's ​Miami-Dade County.

"This is about protecting patients, restoring integrity and safeguarding taxpayer dollars," said CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz in a statement.

Reuters was first to report on the pause. The moratorium will ​give CMS time to account for hospice and home health expenditures under the Medicare program and create additional guidance, an administration official said.

The Trump administration has been criticized for mixing the president's political preferences with agency efforts to eliminate fraud in government payments. The administration singled out some Democratic-led states, including California and Minnesota, as not doing enough to combat fraud. But it also ramped up oversight ​of hospices in Georgia and Ohio last year, both led by Republicans.

DIFFERENT APPROACHES FROM INDUSTRY

In 2024, 1.8 million Medicare beneficiaries received hospice care at a cost of $28.3 billion, ​according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. The same year, 2.7 million patients on Medicare received home healthcare at a cost of $16 billion, according to the agency which advises Congress on healthcare spending.

Vance's ‌task force ⁠has recently taken action against hospice services, particularly in California, where the state auditor said in 2022 that lax oversight had enabled large-scale fraud.

Industry groups had urged different approaches as the Trump administration weighed potential action.

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation said in March it supported temporarily pausing hospice provider enrollments. The National Alliance for Care at Home warned against overly broad action that could deter doctors and patients from recommending or seeking care.

Major home health operators in the U.S. include BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG.O), opens new tab, private equity-backed Matrix ​Medical Network, and UnitedHealth Group (UNH.N), opens new tab. Chemed Corporation (CHE.N), opens new tab subsidiary ​VITAS Healthcare is among the top ⁠hospice care providers.

BROADER CRACKDOWN

Tens of billions of dollars are estimated to be lost in the United States through healthcare fraud each year, translating into higher costs for patients and employers, according to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has ​also sought to tackle other healthcare sectors it has deemed a fraud risk. The administration in February paused Medicare enrollments by ​suppliers of durable medical equipment, ⁠such as prostheses.

The fraud crackdown started in Minnesota, where the Trump administration said in February it would withhold $259 million in funds for Medicaid, the federal- and state-run program for lower-income Americans.

Trump has repeatedly invoked a scandal in Minnesota that dates back to 2020, in which 47 people were accused of defrauding $250 million from a state-run, federally funded child nutrition program. Many of the ⁠defendants in ​that case were Somali Americans, according to local news reports.

The controversy prompted Trump earlier this year to ​send in thousands of federal immigration officers as part of a migrant crackdown. He shifted tactics to a less aggressive approach after federal officers shot dead two people protesting his policies.

In announcing the fraud task force in ​March, Trump, without providing evidence, said fraud allegations were higher in Democratic-led states than in Republican-led states.

Of these measures, perhaps the most bizarre is the out of pocket medical expense which, no matter how necessary or legitimate, does not qualify toward the legally-required Out of Pocket (OOP) maximum.

This week a bill tackles this issue in the Senate Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection committee.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026     12:30 p.m.

AGENDA

SB 914
Sen. Chang
Insurance: health benefits; application of amount paid by the insured or other certain parties when calculating the insured’s co-pay for a prescription drug; require under certain conditions.

And any other business properly before the committee.

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/trump-administration-launches-moms-gov-for-new-and-expecting-mothers.html

https://www.moms.gov/

Trump Administration Launches Moms.Gov for New and Expecting Mothers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 10, 2026
Contact: HHS Press Office
202-690-6343

WASHINGTON—May 10, 2026 — On Mother's Day, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched Moms.gov, a groundbreaking website for new and expecting mothers. This first-of-its-kind resource offers guidance and information to support the health and well-being of mothers and their families.

Moms.gov also supports expecting parents who are navigating difficult or unexpected pregnancies. It features information about pregnancy centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, nutritional guidance, Trump Accounts, and other resources that allow maternal and infant health to thrive.

"This Mother's Day, the Trump Administration is strengthening its commitment to America's families by equipping mothers and fathers with the resources and information they need to build healthy, prosperous lives," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "Moms.gov delivers critical tools and support to help parents foster healthy pregnancies, strengthen young families, and create brighter futures for their children. This is how you Make America Healthy Again."

"On Mother's Day, we recognize that the health of mothers and the health of women are deeply connected" said Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health Dorothy Fink, MD.  Through our Perinatal Improvement Collaborative , we have reduced maternal mortality by 41.5%.  We remain committed to supporting women's health throughout motherhood and at every stage of life.

"Moms.Gov is an easy-to-navigate platform that features information on:

• Support Services and Health Centers (Pregnancy Centers and FQHCs).
• Nutrition quick facts for mothers based on the Dietary Guideline for Americans.
• Trump Accounts.
• Trump Rx.
• Resources for women and parents.
• Preconception health.
• Breastfeeding.
• Mental health.
• Adoption.

To Make America Healthy Again means providing the chance for families to excel physically, mentally, and in their social and spiritual well-being. Moms.gov is an important new federal resource in support of that goal.

Hospitals will argue inflation, everything costs more, we're losing money, etc.

I reply: fees at independent radiology centers (like Basha Diagnostics in SE Michigan, and The Imaging Center in West MI) include a CD of images plus the written report, and still beat hospital prices.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026      9:00 AM

AGENDA

HB 5681 (Rep. Phil Green)
Health: medical records; medical record fees; modify.

HB 5903 (Rep. Bierlein)
Health facilities: certificate of need; allowable use of hospital swing beds; expand to include behavioral health patients.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

Many variables (refundable, income limits, eligible expenses, age/disability criteria, etc.) are summarized in an ASPE issue brief.

Michigan's bill is so fresh off the press, no fiscal analysis is yet available.

Non-health bills are in italics.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026     12:00 PM

AGENDA

HB 5779 (Rep. Harris)
Financial institutions: credit unions; commitment for insurance from a qualified private insurance organization; allow for domestic credit unions in certain filings.

HB 5780 (Rep. McFall)
Financial institutions: credit unions; insurance from a qualified private insurance organization; allow for domestic credit unions during certain conversions.

HB 5781 (Rep. Schuette)
Financial institutions: credit unions; insurance from a qualified private insurance organization; allow for foreign credit unions.

HB 5782 (Rep. Lightner)
Financial institutions: credit unions; insurance from a qualified private insurance organization; allow for domestic credit unions.

HB 5783 (Rep. Brenda Carter)
Financial institutions: credit unions; certain communication with a qualified private insurance organization; allow.

HB 5214 (Rep. Schmaltz)
Individual income tax: credit; credit for eligible family caregivers; provide for.

OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE

Some enterprising investigators from WC Dispatch's Corruption Watch have found that companies dissolved by LARA still have National Provider Identifiers (NPI) registered on the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) registry and are billing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for big bucks.  They have identified 21 dissolved Michigan corporations, entities LARA had declared legally dead, billed MDHHS for $ 118.8 million after their LARA dissolution dates.  This isn't just a paperwork error, it is deliberate fraud.

Walter Curt of WC Dispatch uses the case of Grace Points, Inc. in Dearborn to illustrate the intricate frauds taking place and how they are concealed from scrutiny:

https://www.wcdispatch.com/p/something-stinks-in-michigan

https://www.wcdispatch.com/p/the-new-michigan-medicaid-fraud-machine

Something Stinks in Michigan
Dead Companies, Demolished Buildings, and Hundreds of Millions of Your Taxpayer Dollars.
By Walter Curt - Apr 19, 2026

Editor's note: Welcome to the second installment of Corruption Watch, WC Dispatch's investigative series exposing the leftists, illegal aliens, and NGOs defrauding Americans. We're proud to partner with Restoration News to amplify these on-the-ground investigations, beginning in Michigan. Read the first installment HERE

What do a demolished building, a dental office, and an immigrant hub have in common? In Michigan, they’re all billing Medicaid, and you’re paying for it.

We went looking for a lead. All we found was a demolition team eating lunch.

That crew gave us information that sent us to 21 dissolved businesses and $118.8 million in post-dissolution claims. Grace Points Inc. was the demolished building.

Medicaid records showed the company was tied to $2.4 million in billing, but when we went to the address on file in Dearborn, all that was there was a gutted shell: no walls, no windows, no sign, no suite numbers, just a parking lot that had not seen a patient in years.

When we pulled the records, the story got worse.

Dead on Paper, Billing on Schedule

Grace Points Inc. was not just physically gone. It was legally dead.

Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) shows Grace Points Inc. was dissolved effective March 24, 2023, and the certificate was filed with the state a week later. On paper, the company was done.

In case you need proof this company wasn’t in operation, here’s what it looks like today:

But the billing did not stop. Medicaid claims data show the Grace Points NPI (National Provider Identifier 1962920397), registered on the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) registry to “Grace Points Inc.” at 23400 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, kept billing through November 2024, more than twenty months after the corporation ceased to exist on Michigan’s books. A single month of claims from February 2022 pre-dates the dissolution. Everything else—the overwhelming majority of the $2.42 million in total claims across roughly fourteen beneficiaries—came after the state’s records said Grace Points Inc. was done.

Fourteen beneficiaries––$2.42 million. That works out to roughly $173,000 per person over 33 months. At the H2015 reimbursement rate, that implies more than eight hours of community habilitation services per beneficiary per day, every single day, for 33 straight months. That is physically impossible.

To understand how that happens, you have to understand two things: who was running Grace Points, and what happened to the name itself in Michigan’s business registry around the dissolution.

The Omauvezi Network

One name connects every piece of this: Oghenereke Lisa Omauvezi.

Except it never appears the same way twice. Across the Medicaid billing, the federal contracting paperwork, and the Michigan corporate filings, the same signer reappears as Lisa Oghenereke Omauvezi, Elizabeth Oghenereke Omavuezi, and Elizabeth Omavuezi-Eke. The middle name holds. The surname shifts by a single letter. The first name alternates between Lisa and Elizabeth. A clerk searching one variant would not find the others.

She is the Authorized Official on NPPES for NPI 1962920397—the Grace Points Medicaid provider identifier—at 23400 Michigan Avenue, Suite P44, in Dearborn. The registry of federal contractors, SAM.gov, lists her as the point of contact for Grace Point LLC at the same street address in Suite P30.

Same building. Different suite. Same person. Two separate federal registries pointing at a Dearborn address that appears nowhere on the state database.

Just as the signer’s name shifted across records, the corporate name shifted across filings. The state record kept cycling names. The federal record stayed parked at the building.

Laundering The Name

There was not one clean Grace Points corporate history. There was a cluster.

The entity dissolved by Elizabeth Omavuezi-Eke on March 24, 2023 was Grace Points Inc. (LARA ID 802432113), and that is where it starts to stink.

A separate corporation (LARA ID 801985904) was actually the original Grace Points Inc. Incorporated on January 19, 2017, by one Oghenereke Lisa Omauvezi, but the name didn’t hold long. In the Articles of Incorporation, the corporation’s purpose appears in one handwritten line: “Staffing Agency.” Not healthcare.

In April 2018, Lisa Oghenereke Omauvezi filed a Certificate of Amendment to rename Grace Points Inc. as “Grace Staffing Solutions Inc.”— the word “Points” accidentally dropped. A May correction added the missing word, producing “Grace Points Staffing Solutions Inc.” Then a second correction, filed in June, voided the entire amendment and restored Grace Points Inc. Apparently she couldn’t make up her mind.

But she wasn’t done. In December 2019, Lisa Omauvezi filed a new amendment — and this one stuck. Effective March 15, 2020, Grace Points Inc. legally became Omega Staffing Solutions, clearing the Grace Points name off of 801985904’s books.

Just two days later, she opened a second shell. On March 17, 2020, Lisa Omauvezi signed the Articles of Incorporation for a new Grace Points Inc. Same registered office at 835 Mason Street in Dearborn. Same authorized shares: 60,000. Same one-line stated purpose: “Staffing Agency.” LARA accepted the filing on March 24, 2020. The legal name “Grace Points Inc.” had been off the books for less than a week before it was back on Michigan’s registry—attached to a parallel corporation at the same Dearborn mailbox.

By February 2022, the shell was put to work. Medicaid paid $84,814 to “Grace Points Inc.” at 23400 Michigan Avenue in Dearborn. It was the test payment—proof that the parallel shell was already active, already billing, and already positioned to carry the Grace Points Inc. name while the original corporation continued as Omega Staffing Solutions.

Now the whole scheme was in motion.

The Loop

On March 24, 2023, Grace Points Inc. was formally dissolved, freeing the name in Michigan’s registry. Seven days later, on March 31, Omega Staffing Solutions changed its name back to Grace Points Inc.

The same person, Elizabeth Oghenereke Omavuezi, signed both moves: first dissolving one Grace Points, then restoring the name to the other. LARA accepted the rename on April 19, 2023. From that date forward, a still-living corporation had re-occupied the name of a corporation that had just been killed off a week earlier.

The effect, across every downstream system that tracks providers by name—NPPES, Michigan Medicaid’s provider files, banks, insurers, payers—was that “Grace Points Inc.” had never gone anywhere. The name stayed alive. The NPI stayed active. And that is when the real billing run began: the entire $2.42 million, minus the first test payment of $84,814, was billed only after one Grace Points had been dissolved and the other had stepped into its name.

Then, in February 2025, the loop closed. Grace Points Inc. was renamed back to Omega Staffing Solutions Inc. the very same day Omega filed to do business as “Grace Points Inc.” The DBA was filed again in August. Then, in October 2025, the paperwork was amended so the legal name read, literally, “GRACE POINTS INC/DBA OMEGA STAFFING SOLUTIONS INC.” Both identities, folded into a single line.

This is what name laundering looks like in practice. A name is loaded into a corporate shell and billed against. When scrutiny catches up, the shell is retired. A parallel shell with the same name absorbs or masks the history. Then the name is cycled back to the continuing operation under a legal maneuver that, read one filing at a time, looks unremarkable—but read as a sequence. It’s a closed loop designed to make sure “Grace Points Inc.” was always legally attached to the cluster, no matter when an auditor pulls the records.

Riding the Wave

What happened at Grace Points was no clerical error. It was choreography. With the name-laundering loop complete, the real billing run began—and it never paused.

The timing of the main run tells the rest. In April 2023, the claims came roaring back—the same month Michigan finalized the name swap that put “Grace Points Inc.” back on the state’s books, and just days before Michigan Democrats’ Behavioral Health Home expansion took effect on May 1—Grace Points rode the wave.

The federal paperwork never matched either. In March 2021, an entity calling itself Grace Points Inc. took a $114,523 pandemic-related Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan from the Small Business Association classified under financial services—not healthcare—for a company whose only line of work was community habilitation for people with developmental disabilities. At that moment, the continuing corporation in the cluster was not even legally named Grace Points Inc. It was Omega Staffing Solutions. Federal lending records, state corporate records, and federal Medicaid records all carried different names for the same operation.

Grace Points was not an outlier. The pattern ran deeper.

Ghost Corporations

Grace Points Inc. became the blueprint we needed.

On the hunt for more dead businesses, we ran more than 600 Michigan Medicaid entities against the state’s LARA business registry. What came back was not a handful of bad actors, but a graveyard.

Twenty-one dissolved Michigan corporations, entities the state itself had declared legally dead, exposed $118.8 million in Medicaid billing after their dissolution dates. Not suspicious billing. Not bad paperwork––companies that no longer legally existed. The details made Grace Points look modest.

Tema Pefok’s Precious Care Home Health Care, Inc. was dissolved by the state back in 2014 and then sat quiet. In September 2023—almost a decade after Precious Care legally ceased to exist—it suddenly reappeared in the Medicaid billing stream and pulled in $2.3 million. Every dollar of it came after dissolution.

Ikechukwu Obum’s MICHOLDINGS billed $15.2 million after the state legally dissolved the business in 2022. Tari Efebo of Serenity Community Care actually waited six months after dissolution before billing Medicaid—and continued to do so for several consecutive years at nearly half a million dollars a year. How nice of him to wait?

And then there was Dental Medical Services Inc. This one deserves honorable mention because you cannot make it up. Dental Medical Services ceased to exist in 2004 through a corporate merger. More than a decade later, it began billing Medicaid for developmental disability treatments, to the tune of $4 million.

You get the point. The pattern persists across all twenty-one entities—different names, different addresses, same result. $118.8 million billed through companies the state itself had declared dead. The question was no longer who was doing this. It was how they were getting away with it.

How it Happened

The reason this kept happening is simple, and damning. Michigan’s LARA tracks whether corporations are legally alive or dead. The state’s Medicaid system controls enrollment and payments. The two do not appear to meaningfully talk to each other. So when LARA dissolves a corporation, nothing automatically stops the money. No notice to the Medicaid system. No lock on enrollment. No audit flag. Claims keep getting submitted and paid through companies that no longer legally exist under Michigan law.

As one might imagine, this opens up the floodgates for fraud and abuse.

That failure carries real consequences. A dissolved corporation is not supposed to remain in the payment stream collecting taxpayer money as if nothing happened. Under federal law, false claims can trigger treble damages and steep per-claim penalties, and health care fraud can carry serious prison time. In plain English, Lansing is left with only a few possibilities: fraud, negligence, or a regulatory structure so broken it functionally invited both.

None of this was hidden. Grace Points and the twenty-one other dissolved corporations were operating in plain sight, across records any Michigan resident can pull on a laptop—corporate filings on LARA, provider records on NPPES, federal contracting records on SAM.gov, and the Michigan Medicaid claims data released by DOGE HHS. Put those systems side by side and the gap becomes obvious. A name can be dissolved in one database and still draw money in another. A signer can appear as Lisa on one record and Elizabeth on the next, and no alert connects the two. A shell can be retired, a parallel shell can take its place, and the billing never pauses.

That structural blind spot is what made this investigation possible. Combined with the LARA business registry, the Michigan claims data let us check more than six hundred entities one at a time. No subpoena. No audit staff. No white-collar crime unit. Just a laptop.

And we were working off old data. Michigan Democrats control the executive branch. They sit on top of the live Medicaid billing stream. They also administer the state Health and Human Services Department which is supposed to investigate Medicaid fraud. They could flag every claim being submitted today, every entity currently enrolled, every dollar moving right now—and could cross-check it against LARA in real time.

The investigations seem to have lagged.

If we found twenty-one dead corporations and $118.8 million in a stale snapshot, the live numbers are almost certainly worse.

We only looked at Michigan. The same structural gap exists in other states, across other service categories, under other billing codes. If this is what one corner of one Democrat-controlled program looks like, the national picture could be staggering.

Nobody has been charged. Nobody has been sued. Nobody has been ordered to give the money back.

As of this writing, every one of these businesses still holds an active National Provider Identifier. Michigan has not publicly revoked a single enrollment. The tools to catch this have existed all along—LARA on one side, the Medicaid system on the other. Matching one against the other is not rocket science.

So the question is whether anyone in Lansing will actually do something about it—or whether this investigation will sit on a desk the same way the dissolution records sat in a database, available to anyone who looked, ignored by everyone who should have.

Data sourced from Michigan Medicaid claims data released by DOGE HHS, calendar years 2018–2024; Michigan LARA MiBusiness Registry (authenticated, April 2026); CMS NPPES API; site visits and field reporting in Dearborn and Detroit, April 2026.