Maine stops payments to embattled health
care provider facing fraud allegations
Posted By: DogFacedPonySoldier, 12/24/2025 5:53:17 AM
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services moved Tuesday to halt MaineCare payments to a Portland company that serves immigrants by asserting it had improperly billed for interpreting services and seeking to claw back more than $1 million. The company, Gateway Community Services, received a notice of violation Tuesday from the department along with a notification that it was suspending payments while investigating “credible allegations of fraud.” The department’s unit reviewed 15,000 claims made to Gateway between March 2021 and December 2022 and is seeking to recoup nearly $1.1 million.
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Take an Opportunity to Spread Unexpected
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There is much more to this story. Independent journalist Steve Robinson and his spartan staff at the Maine Wire have been reporting on this for months. Governor Janet Mills, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, Auditor Matt Dunlap and House majority leader Aaron Frey are up to their necks with Somali run Gateway Community Services. Now, they’re scurrying like cockroaches with the lights turned on.