Nigerian man to face charges in US court over ‘$25m healthcare fund fraud’

The US government has preferred charges against Olatunbosun Osukoya, a Nigerian man, over alleged involvement in a $25 million healthcare fund scam.

Osukoya was indicted in “connection with the submission of over $25 million in false and fraudulent medical claims to Medicare, TRICARE, and other insurers for electroencephalogram (EEG) testing”.

EEG testing is a diagnostic test that involves measuring the electricity activity in the brain using sensitive equipment.

A statement published on Tuesday by the US justice department said Osukoya was part of the 324 defendants it had preferred charges against in the 2025 national health care fraud takedown.

The US justice department said the defendants allegedly participated in “various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6 billion in intended loss”.

The defendants include 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other medical professions across the US.

The US justice department filed a one-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud against Osukoya.

According to the charge sheet, Osukoya, the manager of Cambridge Diagnostics, allegedly committed the healthcare fraud between 2020 and 2023 using the company.

“As part of the scheme and artifice to defraud, Osukoya sought out individuals with insurance plans to undergo expensive ambulatory EEG testing through Cambridge Diagnostics,” part of the charge sheet reads.

“To incentivize individuals to undergo the testing, Osukoya offered to pay, and did pay, kickbacks and bribes in varying amounts, typically between $500 and $2000.

“Osukoya also sought out a network of physicians, including Coconspirator One and Coconspirator Two, and others, to order EEG testing through Cambridge Diagnostics.

“Osukoya sent individuals he directly recruited to these physicians to order the testing.

“Additionally, Osukoya encouraged the physicians to refer their own patients to Cambridge Diagnostics for EEG testing.

“In return for referring patients, Osukoya promised to pay, and did pay, kickbacks and bribes to physicians and their representatives in the form of a percentage of the reimbursement Cambridge Diagnostics received from the claims.

“Before any testing was performed, Osukoya sent the individual’s insurance information to his ‘biller’, to ensure Cambridge Diagnostics would receive reimbursement for the claim.

“Osukoya targeted individuals with out-of-network benefits that would reimburse higher for the tests and avoided benefit plans that were known to pay little or nothing for the tests.

“If the patient had no insurance or did not have insurance that covered the testing, the testing was not performed.

“Once Osukoya confirmed the insurer would pay, Osukoya performed a routine EEG on the patient and would then instruct the coconspirator physician to order ambulatory EEG testing.

“To conceal the fraudulent billing scheme and to justify payment for the testing. Osukoya and his co-conspirators frequently listed false or exaggerated diagnoses to make it appear that the service was medically necessary, when in fact, it was not.

“For instance, Osukoya and his co-conspirators would falsely represent that the patient had epilepsy or seizures when the patient had no such condition.”