Cases include grand jury indictments and sentencings against health care and transportation providers accused of defrauding Oregon’s Medicaid program

Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced a series of recent enforcement actions by Oregon DOJ’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) including two convictions of owners of non-emergency transportation companies and an indictment against a behavioral health care company and its owner. The cases, spanning grand jury indictments, guilty pleas and sentencings, involve allegations of billing for services that were never provided, stealing the identities of Medicaid recipients and health care practitioners, and submitting claims for transportation services provided to people who had died.

“Our investigation found that Medicaid patients had their identities stolen, and in two of these cases, providers billed for rides given to people who had already died,” said Attorney General Dan Rayfield. “Medicaid exists so people can get care they couldn’t otherwise afford. Every dollar stolen from that program is a dollar that never reaches someone who needs it.”

Abraham Kindane Kashay – CONVICTED

Abraham Kindane Kashay, 36, of Portland, is the owner and a driver for Pride Transit, LLC, a non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) company serving Medicaid recipients in the Portland metro area. The case was referred to MFCU by Trillium Community Health Plan. MFCU’s investigation found that Kashay submitted claims for transportation services purportedly provided to a person who had died.

On September 3, 2026, Kashay was charged by District Attorney Information with two counts of Making a False Claim for Health Care Payment, Class C felonies. On September 10, 2026, he waived indictment by grand jury and pleaded guilty to both counts. He was sentenced to 36 months of supervised probation and 150 hours of community service and ordered to pay $6,420 in restitution and a $5,000 fine. Kashay is barred from operating any business that receives Medicaid funding.

Tedros Gebrezgabhere – CONVICTED

Tedros Gebrezgabhere, 43, of Portland, is the owner of and a driver for Hope Medical Transport LLC, which provides non-emergency medical transportation services in Oregon. The case was referred to MFCU by Trillium Community Health Plan. MFCU’s investigation found that Gebrezgabhere submitted claims for transportation services purportedly provided to two people who had died.

On June 9, 2026, Gebrezgabhere was charged by District Attorney Information with multiple counts of Making a False Claim for Health Care Payment and Theft in the First Degree. On September 15, 2026, after waiving indictment by grand jury, he pleaded guilty to one count of Making a False Claim for Health Care Payment and one count of Theft in the First Degree. He was sentenced to 36 months of supervised probation and 200 hours of community service, and ordered to pay full restitution of $12,695.34 and a $5,000 fine. Gebrezgabhere is barred from operating any business that receives Medicaid funding.

Khayre Shine and Together Loving Matters LLC – INDICTED

Khayre Shine, 28, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the CEO of Together Loving Matters LLC (TLM), an Oregon business that purportedly provided mental health services. The case was referred to MFCU by CareOregon, which alleged that TLM billed for services that were never provided.

Shine was arraigned last week, after a Multnomah County grand jury indicted Shine and TLM on July 20, 2026, on multiple counts of Making a False Claim for Health Care Payments, Aggravated Theft in the First Degree and Aggravated Identity Theft. The defendants are accused of stealing the identities of 177 Medicaid clients and three Oregon mental health practitioners and using these stolen identities to falsely bill the Oregon Medicaid program for thousands of sessions that never took place.

Criminal charges are merely allegations of criminal conduct. All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

(Opens in a new tab/window)Last week the ODOJ Medicaid Fraud Control Unit briefed the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on the work it does rooting out health care fraud and protecting Oregon’s most vulnerable residents. The timing lines up with a milestone: the Unit is marking 40 years of operation since it was created in 1986.

The MFCU is a small team of 22 – investigators, auditors, a data analyst, a registered nurse, and six attorneys – covering cases in nearly every county in the state. The attorneys include a full-time civil litigator, an attorney who specializes in abuse and neglect cases, and criminal prosecutors who are former Deputy District Attorneys with extensive courtroom experience. Once specially deputized, these attorneys handle the majority of the Unit’s caseload as state criminal prosecutions, alongside civil actions in state and federal court. Investigators come to the Unit from the Medicaid agency, private insurance, licensing boards, and law enforcement.

Over the last 10 years, the Unit has settled 147 civil cases, obtained 207 criminal convictions, and recovered more than $85 million – screening hundreds of referrals and opening roughly 60 new cases every year with the same six attorneys and core investigative staff. The Unit is federally mandated and 75% federally funded, with jurisdiction limited by federal law to Medicaid billing fraud, abuse/neglect/financial exploitation, and fraud by program employees.

About the MFCU

The MFCU is responsible for investigating and prosecuting billing fraud committed by Medicaid providers and abuse/neglect committed by health care providers in connection with the provision of health care services.

The MFCU receives 75% of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $6,539,396 for October 2025 through September 2026. The remaining 25%, totaling $1,634,848, is funded by the State of Oregon.

Report fraud, abuse & neglect

• For Medicaid provider fraud, email Fraud.Referral@doj.state.or.us
• For Abuse or Neglect, call the Oregon abuse reporting hotline: 1-855-503-SAFE (7233)

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