<p>The Justice Department charged 19 Illinoisans, three of them from Chicago, with various healthcare fraud schemes Tuesday, as part of a large-scale investigation that yielded charges against more than 450 people in numerous schemes across the country.</p><p>In one case, Daniel Robinson, 51, from Palos Park, is accused of defrauding Illinois Medicaid through filing false claims for behavioral health counseling and therapy services that were never provided.</p><p>Since January 2024, Robinson’s company, ODA Solutions, an Oak Lawn methadone clinic, has billed Illinois Medicaid more than $95 million and has been paid about $75 million, according to the Justice Department. He allegedly told others in his company to create fake medical records and bill them for counseling services that were not provided, including for some patients who had died.</p><p>Robinson moved about $45 million in fraudulent proceeds into several accounts, of which about $7 million was spent on luxury cars, a yacht, which he named, “Butt Nekkid,” jewelry and real estate, according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros’ office.</p><p>Robinson allegedly submitted claims for 500 or more hours of counseling services per day, more than what his staff could provide if they had worked 24 hours per day, according to the Justice Department.</p><p>“ODA Solutions’ massive profit margins and Robinson’s massive distribution of fraud proceeds for non-business purposes were made possible by the fact that Robinson was not paying any providers to render the vast majority of the services ODA Solutions billed to managed care organizations,” a criminal complaint against Robinson, filed last week in federal court, states.</p><p>The indictment was a surprise for Robinson, his attorney, Mike Leonard, told the Sun-Times Tuesday evening.</p><p>"It's a case we look forward to defending because we don't see any basis for the charges in the first place," Leonard said.