In 2017, Yogesh Pancholi agreed to a five-year voluntary exclusion from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs after being accused of paying kickbacks to doctors for patient referrals in a civil False Claims Act suit. Within a year, Pancholi secretly purchased a home-health-care company, Shring Home Health Care, Inc., using a false identity and forged ownership documents. Between November and December 2018, Shring submitted nearly 900 fraudulent payment requests to Medicare totaling more than $2.7 million. Pancholi pocketed the proceeds and transferred them to India, where much of the money remains unrecovered. He was later charged with healthcare fraud, money laundering, witness tampering, and aggravated identity theft.