Yogesh K. Pancholi, Medicare Fraud, Michigan 2024

A Michigan home health company owner was sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating a nearly $2.8 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Yogesh K. Pancholi, 43, of Northville, Michigan, was convicted of conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, two substantive counts of health care fraud, two counts of money laundering, two counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of witness tampering.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Pancholi purchased Shring Home Care Inc., a home health company based in Livonia, Michigan, using the names, signatures, and personal identifying information of others to conceal his ownership of the company.

In a two-month period, Pancholi and his co-conspirators billed and were paid nearly $2.8 million by Medicare for services that were never provided. Pancholi then transferred these funds through bank accounts belonging to shell corporations and eventually into his accounts in India.

After being indicted, and on the eve of trial, Pancholi, using a pseudonym, wrote false and malicious emails to various federal government agencies alleging a government witness had committed various crimes and should not be allowed to remain in the United States in an attempt to keep the witness from testifying.

In September 2023, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted Pancholi of the aforementioned charges.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea ‘Shea’ Gibson of the FBI Detroit Field Office, and Special Agent in Charge Mario Pinto of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) made the announcement.

The FBI Detroit Field Office and HHS-OIG investigated the case. Trial Attorneys Shankar Ramamurthy and Andres Almendarez of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section prosecuted the case.

Yogesh K. Pancholi, 43, of Northville, Michigan, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for orchestrating a nearly $2.8 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Shring Home Care Inc., a home health company based in Livonia, Michigan, was not charged in the case.

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