Federal officials say false Medicaid claims helped fund luxury purchases, including cars, jewelry and a yacht.
CHICAGO, IL — The owner of an Oak Lawn methadone clinic has been charged in federal court with health care fraud and money laundering after prosecutors said his business collected about $75 million from false Medicaid claims.
Daniel J. Robinson, 51, of Palos Park, is accused of using ODA Solutions Inc. to bill Illinois Medicaid managed care plans for counseling and therapy services that investigators say were not provided. The case was made public as part of a national Justice Department health care fraud sweep that charged 455 defendants across the country. Robinson has not been convicted, and the charges remain allegations.
The criminal complaint was filed June 18 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. It says ODA Solutions, a methadone clinic in Oak Lawn, submitted false claims from about Dec. 11, 2023, through 2026. Federal officials said the clinic billed more than $95 million and was paid at least about $75.2 million by managed care organizations tied to Illinois Medicaid. The payments came from plans including CountyCare Health Plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Meridian Health Plan, Molina Healthcare and Aetna Better Health. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said health care fraud causes major losses and can exploit patients through unsafe or unneeded care.
Investigators said the billing pattern quickly outgrew what the clinic could have done with its staff. The complaint says ODA Solutions never had more than about 16 providers on staff, but often billed for 500 or more hours of counseling and therapy services in a single day. In July 2025, federal agents said the clinic would have needed about 95 providers working eight-hour days to match the claims. Even if every provider had worked without breaks for 24 hours, investigators said the clinic still would have needed far more workers than its payroll records showed.
The complaint says ODA Solutions also gave insurers fake visit notes and provider rosters when asked to support the claims. Some records allegedly listed outpatient therapy sessions on dates when patients were in hospitals and could not have been at the clinic. Investigators said one patient told an insurer that Oak Lawn was far from her Maywood home and that she had never sought drug or alcohol treatment there. Another patient said he received methadone at ODA Solutions but not the hundreds of therapy services billed in his name. Federal agents said several people interviewed denied receiving the services listed in the billing records.
Law enforcement also watched the clinic in spring 2026, according to the complaint. Agents said 24-hour video surveillance from April 20 to May 2 showed no more than 45 patients entered ODA Solutions on a single day, and most stayed 15 minutes or less. During part of that period, investigators said, the clinic claimed more than 180 patients each received at least one hour of therapy or counseling on five separate days. The complaint says that gap between clinic traffic and billing records was one piece of evidence that many claims were false.
Robinson is described in court records as the founder, owner and operator of ODA Solutions. Investigators said he set up the clinic’s billing account, gave third-party billers access to it and stayed involved in the claims process. The complaint also says he was part of email exchanges about records sent to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois after the insurer asked questions. In one July 2025 email, investigators said Robinson told another person to add 20 names to a requested employee roster. The complaint says several of those names later appeared as signatures on records, though payroll data did not show those people were paid by ODA Solutions.
Federal officials said money from the clinic account was moved into brokerage accounts, a car dealership, real estate, jewelry, watches, vehicles and other purchases. The complaint says more than $27.3 million went to brokerage accounts, more than $10.1 million went to a car dealership Robinson set up with another person, and more than $4.1 million went to real estate purchases and home improvements. Investigators also listed about $1.3 million for jewelry, watches and other luxury items, plus more than $616,000 for vehicles. Prosecutors said Robinson moved about $45 million into several accounts, with about $7 million spent on luxury items, including a yacht named “Butt Nekkid.”
The complaint includes two counts. The first accuses Robinson of health care fraud tied to a CountyCare claim submitted on or about Sept. 6, 2024, for therapy services that investigators say were not provided. The second accuses him of money laundering tied to a $500,000 transfer on or about July 15, 2024, from an ODA Solutions bank account to a Merrill Lynch account. Federal agents said the money in that transfer came at least partly from health care fraud proceeds. The court record was sworn by FBI Special Agent Curt Haralson and signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Albert Berry III.
Robinson’s attorney, Mike Leonard, said the defense sees no basis for the charges. “It’s a case we look forward to defending,” Leonard said. He also said making money in the industry does not prove fraud and called the arrest in Miami unnecessary. The defense has not yet filed a full response to the complaint in court. It was not immediately clear from the public record when Robinson would next appear in Chicago federal court.
The case is one of 19 Illinois cases announced as part of the wider federal health care fraud takedown. Nationally, the Justice Department said the operation involved alleged schemes totaling more than $6.5 billion in false claims and included 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called the sweep “the greatest whole-of-government effort” against health care fraud in the nation’s history.
Federal agencies said they also seized cash, luxury vehicles, jewelry and other assets in the national operation. In the Robinson case, prosecutors are expected to continue tracing money they say flowed from Medicaid payments into personal and business accounts. The next key step is the early court process, including detention, arraignment or further charging decisions.
Author note: Last updated 2026-06-24.