The United States charged a Nigerian, Olatunbosun Osukoya, along with 323 others, as part of a nationwide crackdown on alleged perpetrators of healthcare fraud schemes that have cost the country at least $14 billion in intentional damages, according to the US Department of Justice.
According to a statement received on Thursday from the Department of Justice website, the defendants included doctors, chemists, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals who allegedly exploited patients and taxpayers.
“The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6bn in intended loss.”
Emphasising the alleged role of Osukoya in the scheme, the statement noted that as the owner of a diagnostic centre, the 67-year-old submitted over $25m in fraudulent medical claims to insurers.
According to the statement, Osukoya sought out individuals with insurance to undergo costly lab testing, as well as recruited and bribed medical professionals to refer patients to his laboratory.
It read, “Olatunbosun Osukoya, 67, of Plano, Texas, was charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit healthcarefraud in connection with the submission of over $25 million in false and fraudulent medical claims to Medicare, TRICARE, and other insurers for electroencephalogram testing.
“As alleged in the indictment, Osukoya, the owner of Ayo Biometrics, LLC d/b/a Cambridge Diagnostics, sought out individuals with insurance plans to undergo expensive EEG testing and recruited and paid kickbacks and bribes to physicians and others to refer patients to Cambridge Diagnostics.
“To conceal the scheme and to make it appear that the services were necessary, Osukoya and his co-conspirators allegedly falsified diagnoses and falsely labelled kickback payments as loans, medical directorships, and consultation fees, among other things.”
The statement also alleged that the defendant received over $5m for the claims and paid over $450,000 in illegal kickbacks.
“Osukoya, through Cambridge Diagnostics, was paid over $5 million for the claims and is alleged to have paid out over $450,000 in illegal kickbacks,” the statement concluded.
