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Guilty Plea Marks End of $13M Health Care Scam
Detroit resident Muhammad ‘Sib’ Ahmad, 33, pleaded guilty today to his role in organizing a massive $13 million home health care fraud and money laundering scheme in the Detroit area.
According to court documents, Ahmad and his co-conspirators acquired ownership and control of three Detroit-area home health agencies: Physicians Choice Home Health Care LLC, First Care Home Health Care LLC, and Quantum Home Care Inc.
Between July 2008 and September 2011, Ahmad and his co-conspirators submitted or caused the submission of more than $13 million in fraudulent home health claims to the Medicare program by Physicians Choice, First Care, Quantum, and a fourth home health agency owned by co-conspirators, Moonlite Home Care Inc.
Muhammad ‘Sib’ Ahmad admitted that he and his co-conspirators directed the payment of non-licensed individuals who represented themselves as doctors to Medicare beneficiaries. He also admitted to paying and directing various medical professionals, including nurses, physical therapists, and physical therapy assistants, to create fictitious patient files to document purported home health services that were never rendered.
Additionally, Ahmad admitted that he incorporated a shell company known as Century Home Care for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of the health care fraud scheme.
Today’s guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade; Special Agent in Charge Andrew G. Arena of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Lamont Pugh III of the HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Chicago Regional Office.
This case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney Catherine K. Dick of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. It was investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG, and was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Key Facts
- State: Michigan
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes|White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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