Insane Home Healthcare Fraud - largest 'employer' in several states

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Ram Chhetri came to the US as a refugee, but this might be the worst day of his life. It’s the moment he realizes the $80k–$160k a year salary he’s bilked from Medicaid for no-show work is coming to an end because we caught the truth on camera.We conducted months of surveillance that shows why “home care aide” is now the most common job in states like New York, California, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania: because a large part of those jobs are unambiguous Medicaid fraud.Thanks to home care, Bhutanese refugees now make more money than actual Pennsylvania families. The state doesn’t just look the other way—it helps them get away with it. Converting federal health dollars into a universal basic income for certain communities relieves the financial burden they place on the state.

The scammers easily deceive the feds’ woefully broken monitoring system. You’ll see Ram pull into a driveway for two minutes in the morning, then two minutes in the evening. He clocks in and out of his shift from the right place, and the GPS system doesn’t notice that he goes home in between

]$20 an hour doesn’t sound like much, but at 77 hours a week it’s $80,000—and it’s easy to bill huge hours when you don’t actually have to work them. And that’s just for the low-level guys in this scheme.

She told me the government always calls ahead.


The home Chhetri visits is one of the more expensive in the area. Residents drive a Range Rover and a custom Cybertruck. Dilu Monger lives there. She spends her time traveling the world on luxury vacations. What’s her secret? Strip-mining Pennsylvania for anyone over 60 on Medicaid.

Governor Josh Shapiro’s policies allow them to be farmed for pure gold: up to 24 hours a day of home care—in the form of a big check to the relative, friend, or company of their choosing.She and her husband make money off these companies. Even though they’re rich, they won’t take care of their own aging relative who lives with them. They leave her on Medicaid and make the government pay someone to watch her for 11 hours a day because she has diabetes. That seems greedy enough. But it’s worse. The money goes to their friend who doesn’t actually even do the work.

Chhetri resigned from his job after I showed him my video of his pit-stops in Dilu’s driveway. He said he was paid to take care of Dilu’s aunt and worked for Gaunley Home Care. The company is owned by fellow Bhutanese Biras Adhikari and is paid about $150,000 a month for roughly 26 clients.Congress required states to implement Electronic Visit Verification—rudimentary GPS—to stop fraud in this multi-billion-dollar program.

I obtained Chhetri’s EVV records from Gaunley, and they showed how utterly out of control the program is.The records showed that Chhetri was clocking into a second client’s house—seemingly billing for two 77-hour-a-week jobs ($160k)—while actually doing neither. The second client is a 45-year-old Bhutanese woman who lived across town. And the GPS records, the government’s only tool to spot fraud, said he was clocking in from her house—even though I know for a fact that he was nowhere near it, because I had eyes on him at that very moment. Obviously these reports mean nothing.

The owner of Gaunley told me Congress should ban Medicaid patients from using family members and friends as aides because it’s too easy for them to collude to hide no-show jobs.But the program is more corrupt than just that. The woman obviously knows her aide wasn’t showing up, but she never told anyone. She convinced the government she was so sick she couldn’t survive without a taxpayer-funded aide—but that can’t be true, because she was doing exactly that.The record has a phone number the government can use to contact the patient. But the second patient’s phone number isn’t really hers. It belongs to this man with a felony conviction for welfare fraud who nonetheless works in “refugee resettlement” and home care, and is tied to a top Gaunley official.The owner of Gaunley told me he’d have his staff investigate what was going on at this second house. Don’t hold your breath: Guess who’s the Gaunley employee in charge of verifying that home aides are where they’re supposed to be? Dilu Monger—the very woman whose aunt was also apparently receiving no-show home care.

Daily Wire surveillance in Pennsylvania shows that scammers know how to bypass the fraud-prevention system of Medicaid “home care,” and doing so has become so common that people aren’t even trying to hide it. Refugees are billing $80k+ without lifting a finger.

Home care is now the most common job in America in several states. Many bill the government for no-show work. Pennsylvania’s Medicaid home-care spending rose from $530 million in 2021 to $850 million in 2024. The system is broken by design.

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