Press Release: 2/12/2026
AG’s Office Secures Indictments Against Waltham-Based Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Provider And Former Owner Over Money Laundering And Medicaid Fraud Scheme
Defendant Alleged To Have Fraudulently Billed MassHealth $770,000 For More Than 16,000 Non-Emergency Transportation Rides That Were Never Provided
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
2/11/2026
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (AGO) today announced that Bakali Mukasa, 44, formerly of Billerica, and his former company, JBM Health and Educational Services Inc. (JBM), were indicted by a Statewide Grand Jury on multiple charges related to a complex money laundering and transportation fraud scheme. The AGO alleges that JBM and Mukasa fraudulently billed MassHealth more than $770,000 for non-emergency transportation rides that were never provided, and then laundered the proceeds through various bank, real estate, and investment accounts before ultimately transferring the funds to Uganda, where Mukasa now resides.
Mukasa and JBM are each charged with one count of Medicaid False Claims, Larceny over $1,200, and Money Laundering.
According to the AGO, Mukasa and JBM are alleged to have claimed to provide non-emergency medical transportation for MassHealth members to attend methadone clinics to receive opioid addiction treatment. Between July 2019 and November 2020, investigators discovered that Mukasa and JBM had billed MassHealth for more than 16,907 rides that were not provided, as methadone treatment records revealed that MassHealth members had received “take home” methadone orders on the dates of the reported rides that did not require a physical visit to the treatment location. Investigators additionally uncovered nearly 100 rides billed for members who were deceased. MassHealth, through its transportation contractor, paid Mukasa and JBM more than $770,000 for these fraudulent rides.
Investigators also learned that Mukasa used the proceeds he received from MassHealth as part of a complex money laundering scheme in which Mukasa moved more than $1 million into bank, real estate, and investment accounts in other individuals’ names, and then to accounts in Uganda, where he currently resides.
These charges are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
This matter is representative of the AGO’s commitment to combatting MassHealth fraud, including fraud committed by non-emergency medical transportation providers. In April 2025, the AGO secured indictments against a Worcester-based non-emergency medical transportation company and its owner for knowingly billing MassHealth more than $3 million in transportation services that were never provided. In July 2025, the AGO reached a $1 million settlement with a Millville-based non-emergency transportation provider, resolving allegations that the company submitted false claims to MassHealth and the Department of Developmental Services for contracted routes that were not actually driven and for failing to have required staff monitors onboard for certain routes. In October 2024, the AGO obtained a $380,000 settlement to resolve allegations with a Swampscott-based non-emergency transportation provider to resolve allegations that the company billed MassHealth for transportation services that it did not provide.
This matter was handled by Assistant Attorney General Scott Grannemann, Investigator Grace Bentley, Senior Healthcare Fraud Investigator Vanessa Asiatidis, Senior Data Scientist William Welsh, and Investigations Supervisor Joe Shea, all of the AGO’s Medicaid Fraud Division. MassHealth and the Montachusett Regional Transit Authority provided substantial assistance with the investigation. The investigation began with a referral from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
The AGO’s Medicaid Fraud Division is a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, annually certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate and prosecute health care providers who defraud the state’s Medicaid program, MassHealth. The Medicaid Fraud Division also has jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute complaints of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of residents in long-term care facilities and of Medicaid patients in any health care setting. Individuals may file a MassHealth fraud complaint or report cases of abuse or neglect of Medicaid patients or long-term care residents by visiting the AGO’s website.
The Massachusetts Medicaid Fraud Division receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $6,458,176 for federal fiscal year 2026. The remaining 25 percent, totaling $2,152,724 for FY 2026, is funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.