Two Charged With Using Federal Funds Intended To Help Addicts 

Raymond “Rocky” Meadows II and his wife Helen Crutchen Meadows are charged with conspiring to falsify documentation for drug tests that were not actually performed. 

The charges are part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown. Announced Tuesday, the operation involves charges of health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes against 455 defendants nationwide. 

In West Virginia, Rocky Meadows II was the founder and director of Lifehouse, a faith-based substance abuse recovery program in Huntington, a region once considered the epicenter of the opioid crisis.  

According to the indictments, the scheme consisted of Helen Meadows routinely billing 32 hours of overtime each week for months at a time, as well as billing for hours when she was with her husband on out-of-state vacations, while he signed off on the documentation. The laboratory issued payments based on the fraudulent billings and Lifehouse subsequently obtained reimbursement from federal and state healthcare programs. 

Investigators haven’t determined yet how much money was involved. 

“They obviously were the beneficiary of many, many, many, many dollars coming from the federal government, and we’ve seen a lot of the folks I believe that were probably in and out of life house treatment facilities that are still out there and struggling,” Moore Capito, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, said. “It looks for the most part that the services that were purportedly being performed were not in fact being performed, and many of these people are probably exactly in the place where they were before they ever entered the door.” 

The following civil settlements were also announced Tuesday as part of the National Health Care Fraud Takedown: 

• West Virginia Sleep Centers, LLC, a West Virginia sleep laboratory located in Beckley, West Virginia, reached a civil settlement to pay $120,000 to resolve allegations that the company submitted claims for payment to Medicaid and the Veterans Administration Community Health program for sleep studies and polysomnogram reports that were prepared and signed by unqualified, non-physician staff during the period from January 1, 2016 through January 9, 2020.  

• Muhammad Salman, 64, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, reached a civil settlement to pay $325,000 to resolve allegations that he and his company, Bridgeport Pharmacy, (1) violated the False Claims Act by submitted claims to Medicare and Medicaid while he was traveling and not in close proximity to his office in West Virginia and (2) violated the Controlled Substances Act by using pre-signed, invalid prescriptions that were issued outside the usual course of his professional practice to his patients in West Virginia.   

• Jorge Roig, 58, of Weirton, West Virginia, reached a civil settlement to pay $165,900 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act by using pre-signed, invalid prescriptions that were issued outside the usual course of his professional practice to his patients in West Virginia.