Investigative influencer Nick Shirley teamed up with the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services himself — Dr. Mehmet Oz — this weekend to walk right into the middle of one of the biggest healthcare fraud rings in the country. What they exposed on camera is now sending shockwaves through New York City.
Shirley’s latest investigation reveals more than $190 million in personal home care and adult daycare fraud, most of it running through a cluster of Medicaid-funded senior “social adult daycare” centers packed into a single stretch of Queens. Federal authorities have confirmed they are now investigating whether the explosive growth of these centers — catering predominantly to elderly Korean and Chinese populations — is masking one of the largest Medicaid scams in the country.
The billing model is the tell. Adult daycare centers enroll elderly patients and bill Medicare and Medicaid up to $1,600 per patient per visit for supposed medical and social services. Shirley’s team found operators who could not plausibly have served the number of patients showing up in their billing records. Employees on camera flat-out denied having thousands of members enrolled — while the government’s own public data showed exactly that. Thousands of members. Millions in monthly billing. And in some cases, a nearly-empty room.
Dr. Oz did not just show up for a photo. As CMS administrator, he has direct authority over the federal side of the Medicaid billing pipeline. Standing next to Shirley, he pointed out major red flags in real time — including three separate medical supply companies allegedly operating out of one small apartment with no visible inventory.
Then Shirley took the cameras to a boss of an adult daycare center in Queens and got him on record admitting the scheme’s outlines. What he described was not a bureaucratic misunderstanding. He described a structured operation — and Shirley’s on-air sources have now identified Korean and Chinese organized crime networks as the ones ultimately profiting from the flow of federal healthcare dollars into these operations.
The political implications are already spreading. All of this is happening on Zohran Mamdani’s watch — the socialist New York City mayor whose administration has spent more time attacking ICE and celebrating illegal migration than it has policing $190 million holes in the city’s federal Medicaid draw. Mamdani has not commented on the Shirley-Oz investigation. The silence is its own answer.
Nick Shirley has spent the past year building a reputation as one of the most effective on-the-ground conservative investigative reporters in America. Where legacy outlets refuse to touch stories that make the wrong people look bad, Shirley walks in with a camera and asks the questions. His previous investigations have led to federal referrals, congressional inquiries, and viral moments that reset the national conversation for days at a time.
Dr. Oz joining this one changes the equation. This is not a viral video someone can dismiss as an influencer stunt. This is the sitting administrator of CMS — the federal official responsible for every dollar of Medicare and Medicaid billed in this country — standing at the door of an alleged fraud front, on camera, in real time.
What the public still does not know: how many of the operators identified in Shirley’s video are now under active federal criminal investigation. How much of the $190 million figure will grow as CMS auditors dig into the billing records the on-camera boss just implicitly confirmed. And whether Mamdani’s NYC administration will do anything at all — or whether the feds will be forced to move in alone.
What we do know: patriots have been telling anyone who would listen for years that America’s Medicaid system is being looted by organized crime rings using our seniors as billing shields. Nick Shirley just proved it. Dr. Oz just verified it. The question now is whether the people responsible for stopping it will finally act.
