J6 Obsessive Dismisses a Presidential Assassination Attempt; Maine's Platner Is Now a Demo...
Humans. Americans. Let Everyone Be Treated Equally.
Detransitioner Asks IBM Shareholders to Stop Funding Trans Surgeries for Minors
Future GOP Presidential Nominees Must Endure Severe Storms
What About Earth’s Threatened and Endangered People?
You Are on Your Own in America's Progressive Cities
Biden’s Ill-Advised Rule Against Critical Minerals Mining Is Finally Gone
Socialist Cognitive Dissonance: Our Revolution Endorses Billionaire Tom Steyer for Califor...
The Social Media Age Is Over, but America Can Still Lead on Tech
Has Iran’s Ceasefire Become a Green Light for Repression?
Desperate Families Here and Abroad Show They Need Government Support, Not Resistance
Fake Iranian Opposition – Wolves in Different Wolves' Clothes
Wait, the Biden Administration Did What to Christians?
Trump Says the U.S. Will Be Taking Over Cuba 'Almost Immediately'
Feds Seize $2M From Pasadena Wound Clinic Accused of Defrauding Medicare for Fake...
Tipsheet

Rampant Medicaid Fraud in Minnesota Cost a Man His Life

Rampant Medicaid Fraud in Minnesota Cost a Man His Life
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Just when you thought the rampant fraud impacting government programs in Minnesota couldn't get any worse, it does. Not only are Minnesota taxpayers now the largest backers of the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, but at least one man died thanks to this fraud.

Advertisement

Here's more:

In an Eastside St. Paul apartment, 39-year-old Rick Clemmer was found dead on March 7, 2025. Police body-camera video from the scene captures a paramedic stating, “He’s got rigor and lividity - so he’s been deceased for a long amount of time.”

Clemmer’s death was ruled natural. The medical examiner cited an enlarged heart, but his mother, Mickey Clemmer, believes what’s written on the autopsy report tells only part of the story.

“If they were really providing him the services they should have been,” she told KARE 11, “he would be here with me.”

Rick Clemmer struggled with mental illness and addiction for most of his adult life. But in 2024, it seemed like Clemmer had turned his life around. Thanks to a Medicaid-funded program called Integrated Community Supports (ICS), he got his own apartment. That program, which was managed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, was supposed to help people like Clemmer with day-to-day living with a personal caregiver.

Advertisement

As mentioned in the post above, Ultimate Home Health Services and Othman Mohamed billed the state just over $460 a day for services they said they were providing to Clemmer. According to KARE 11, the billing said the agency provided 12 hours of daily service.

Clemmer's mother called it "fraud" and said such care "never happened."

An employee of Ultimate Home Health, Abdul Ibrahim, told police he last saw Clemmer the day before Clemmer was found deceased. "It was yesterday morning," Ibrahim said. "He is...one of the most independent residents here. So, we don't do much checking on him."

Police asked if Clemmer was currently using drugs. "I have no idea what he does," Ibrahim replied.

Less than a month ago, Minnesota paused Medicaid payments to 14 programs, citing concerns of fraud. ICS was one of those programs. That came too late for Clemmer, who died back in March of this year.

On top of that, hundreds of millions were fraudulently stolen from Feeding Our Future, a COVID-era meal program for children, and from Minnesota housing programs. Other than bland statements about combating fraud, Democratic Governor Tim Walz has done little to address the wholesale theft of taxpayer dollars, and now at least one man is dead because of such mismanagement.

Advertisement

It makes us wonder how many dependent Minnesotans are suffering, being neglected by fraudulent agencies that bill Medicare for services not rendered. How many clients of Ultimate Home Health weren't being checked on, despite the agency billing the state? We fear Rick Clemmer is just one of many.

Editor’s Note: Every single day, here at Townhall, we will stand up and FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT against the radical left and deliver the conservative reporting our readers deserve.

Help us continue to tell the truth about the Trump administration and its successes. Join Townhall VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement