Bakali Mukasa billed MassHealth for rides to methadone clinics that were never driven. His Waltham-based company, JBM Health and Educational Services Inc., collected more than $770,000 from Massachusetts Medicaid for 16,907 trips that did not happen, including nearly 100 trips billed for patients who were already dead.

Investigators discovered the scheme by cross-referencing billing records against the clinics own logs. On the dates the rides were supposedly provided, patients had been issued take-home medication, meaning there was no reason to travel. The ghost rides were hiding in plain sight.

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