Minnesota suspends Medicaid home care operator's license amid service failure probe

A Minnesota home care operator funded by Medicaid faces a state investigation for allegedly taking payments without providing services to vulnerable clients.

Arnold Kubei, a Cameroonian asylee who arrived in the United States in 2007, declared bankruptcy in 2014 after a failed gas station investment. In a 2022 interview with a local media outlet, he described running two home care businesses that generated $3.7 million in 2021.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services suspended Kubei's license to offer home and community-based services while probing claims that his companies did not deliver paid-for care. His firms were supposed to secure community housing for disabled people, former convicts, nursing home residents and others facing housing challenges.

Department officials found an "imminent risk of harm to persons served" from failures to provide certain services. Late April letters detailed lapses such as inadequate medication for patients, no contacts for seriously injured patients needing help, addiction relapses due to missing staff supervision for sobriety, and general shortfalls in meeting needs outlined in support plans.

"The license holder and controlling individual are the subjects of a pending administrative investigation and pending administrative action related to fraud against Minnesota’s Medicaid program," one letter to Kubei stated.

Home Sweet Home Minnesota has collected nearly $3.2 million in taxpayer payments since 2024, based on a review of the state's transparency database.

"People use fraud, fraud, fraud everywhere, to attack us with it," Kubei told a local outlet in April after the suspension. "We are not the guys. We are not the guys. We are the guys who want to collaborate with the Department of Human Services."

"This is damaging of my reputation in this community. This is targeting. This is bullying," he added.

Kubei appeared on the YouTube channel "Immigrant Money" to discuss rising from bankruptcy to multimillions in five years. The video, which showed him drinking champagne at home, went private but resurfaced on platforms including X.

An opening jingle sang: "Immigrant money, immigrant money, I came from overseas and now I got the money."

"I urge you to come to my summit for me to teach you how these things are supposed to be done," Kubei said. "I figured it out."

Kubei has appealed the suspension and seeks to resume state payments. He did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment on Friday.