Attorney General Ellison announces criminal charges involving over $1.5 million in Medicaid fraud
17 Felony Theft charges filed in two separate cases in Ramsey County District Court
August 17, 2026 (SAINT PAUL) — Today, Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has charged two separate cases alleging a combined loss of over $1.5 million to the Medicaid program.
In the first case, Salman Ahmed Elmi is charged with 8 felony theft offenses related to Reva Health’s billing for over $1,000,000 in Medicaid-funded services that were not provided or were ineligible for reimbursement. From 2024 through 2026, Elmi operated Reva Health in Golden Valley. Reva claimed to provide adult rehabilitative mental health services (ARMHS) to Medicaid recipients. In fact, Elmi and other co-conspirators at Reva falsified documentation to obtain Medicaid reimbursement, instructed employees to pay recipients illegal kickbacks in exchange for those recipients’ permission to use their personal information in support of false claims for Medicaid reimbursements, utilized ineligible providers to provide ARMHS to recipients, and falsely claimed to have provided ARMHS with adequate supervision when there was little to no supervision actually provided.
As documented in the Complaint, several co-conspirators of Elmi at Reva ran separate criminal enterprises with connections to Reva and face charges filed by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. These co-conspirators and entities remain under investigation by the MFCU for their role in defrauding the Medicaid program.
In the second case, which is separate and independent from the Reva Health case, Mohamed Haji Rashid is charged with 9 felony theft offenses related to his company’s billing for over $300,000 in Medicaid-funded services that were not provided or were ineligible for reimbursement.
Between at least August 2020 and February 2025, Rashid operated Liberty Home Health Care in Minneapolis and Columbia Heights. Liberty provided Personal Care Assistant Services and Home and Community Based Services to Medicaid recipients in the Twin Cities. As documented in the Complaint, Liberty billed for PCA services that its PCAs did not provide on over 3,300 separate occasions. One PCA described Rashid telling her to report more hours than she actually worked. Liberty recipients indicated that a limited number of PCAs provided them with services, when billing data showed several other PCAs that the recipients did not know or recognize were billed as if they had provided services.
"Medicaid fraud steals money meant to provide healthcare to our low-income friends and neighbors,” said Attorney General Ellison. “It is illegal and it makes my blood boil, which is why I’m filing these charges and why I’ve built a strong record of holding fraudsters accountable. My team and I have won over 340 Medicaid fraud convictions so far, which is an average of one fraud conviction every eight days since I’ve been your Attorney General. These charges serve as yet another warning that those who try to cheat Minnesotans will be caught and charged.”
This Elmi case is the product of a joint investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, with assistance from the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Forensic Lab. The Rashid case was investigated by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with assistance from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Columbia Heights Police Department, and the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Forensic Lab.
Both Medicaid Fraud cases are being prosecuted by AG Ellison’s MFCU.
Background on Minnesota’s new fraud fighting law
Recently, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Senator Ann Johnson Stewart, and Representative Matt Norris led the charge to pass the Medical Assistance Protection Act, or MAP Act. Medical Assistance in Minnesota’s name for Medicaid, and the Medical Assistance Protection Act was signed into law recently after received widespread bipartisan support. The bill adds more investigators and prosecutors to Attorney General Ellison’s fraud-fighting team, increases penalties for high-dollar Medicaid fraud, extends the statute of limitations for Medicaid fraud, expands Attorney General Ellison's investigatory authority when it comes to Medicaid fraud, improves Minnesota's ability to recover tax dollars lost to fraud, and strengthens Minnesota's Medicaid fraud statute. More information on the law is available here. The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office is currently hiring for the new positions funded by the MAP Act.
Attorney General Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit works to uncover, investigate, and prosecute individuals or organizations that steal from Medicaid and that exploit, neglect, or abuse vulnerable victims. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit receives 75% of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $5,078,704 for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2026. The remaining 25%, totaling $1,692,898 for FY 2026, is funded by the State of Minnesota.
