A home health agency owner was sentenced to more than six years in prison on charges that he led a Medicare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.
 
Paul Njoku, 64, was sentenced Aug. 28, 2025, to 75 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.
 
According to a Department of Justice release, Njoku was owner and CEO of a home health care agency called Opnet Health Care Services Inc. doing business as P & P Health Care Services.
 
Njoku, or others working at his direction, forged signatures of doctors and nurses, according to the DOJ. Specifically, Njoku and others cut out old signatures and taped them onto newly created doctors’ orders, nursing notes and nursing assessments. Njoku then submitted the falsified records in response to a request for records from Medicare.
 
He was also accused of fraudulently using the signature of a nurse who had left the company, as well as bribing a doctor in exchange for approving home health services, according to the DOJ.
 
From 2015 to 2019, Opnet billed Medicare over $400,000 in claims for home health services and received over $360,000. Opnet did not maintain the required documentation for many of them and later falsified records to support the claims.