Dead Michigan Companies Bill MDHHS For Big Bucks

Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs' (LARA) doesn't just license medical professionals as individuals, its Corporations Division also licenses all corporations operating in the state.  These licenses have to be renewed annually.  Fail to renew, and LARA is supposed to put you out of business.

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:

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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.