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January 26, 2026 CERTIFIED MAIL Mohammed Rashid Liberty Home Health Care LLC 4141 Central Ave NE, #105N Columbia Heights, MN 55421-3371 License Number: 1104824 HCBS ORDER OF LICENSE SUSPENSION Dear Mohammed Rashid: The Department of Human Services (DHS) is suspending your license to provide home and community-based services (HCBS) until you are reinstated into the Minnesota Medical Assistance and other Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP). This suspension is based on your one-year exclusion from any program administered by the Commissioner under section 245.095. Details of our findings are provided below. Our next steps and your options are also detailed. REASON FOR LICENSE SUSPENSION 1. License holder excluded On January 31, 2024 DHS issued a Notice of Suspension from MHCP to you. On May 15, 2024, DHS issued an Amended Notice of Suspension, Monetary Recovery and Order to Pay a Fine. On August 7, 2025, you and DHS entered into a settlement agreement. As part of the settlement agreement, DHS suspended you as a provider from MHCP for one year from the date of the settlement agreement. The settlement agreement provided that at the end of the suspension, you must reapply to be reinstated as a provider in MHCP. Because you are excluded from a program administered by the Commissioner under Minnesota Statutes, section 245.095, DHS is suspending your HCBS license until you are reinstated into MHCP. Before issuing this Order of License Suspension, DHS considered the nature, chronicity, or severity of the violation. Regarding the nature and severity, Minnesota Statutes, section 245.095, subdivision 1, requires the Commissioner to revoke or suspend the license when the license holder is excluded from any program administered by the Commissioner. Regarding chronicity, section 245.095, subdivision 1, requires suspension or revocation when the the program is excluded and it does not require the program to be excluded more than once. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.07, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), subparagraph (4); Minnesota Statutes, section 245.095, subdivision 1, paragraph (a)(2), and paragraph (b). Because you are excluded from participation in MHCP, your license to provide home and community-based services is suspended until you are reinstated into MHCP. The suspension of your license to provide HCBS services will not end until you provide written documentation to DHS licensing showing you have been reinstated into MHCP. Your submission must be sent to: Commissioner, Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General Licensing Division Attention: HCBS Unit PO Box 64242 St. Paul, MN 55164-0242 2. Commissioner’s evaluation of program In determining whether a licensing action is warranted, DHS evaluated the facts, conditions, and circumstances concerning your program’s operation. This includes consideration of the well-being of persons served by your program, information about the qualifications of staff persons that are working in your program, and your ability to demonstrate competent knowledge of statutes and rules. DHS is required to suspend your license as a result of your exclusion from MHCP under section 245.095. In addition, DHS is concerned about the program’s operation, well-being of persons served, qualifications of staff and whether the license holder has competent knowledge of applicable requirements of statutes and rules based on the conduct that lead to your suspension from MHCP and because during the period of your suspension from MHCP you will not receive Medicaid funds to care for the persons served and to operate the program. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.04, subdivision 6. YOUR RIGHT TO APPEAL You have the right to appeal the license suspension. Your request must be in writing and clearly state that you are requesting a contested case hearing for this matter. Your request must be made before the deadlines provided below. If you do not meet this deadline, you lose your right to an administrative appeal. Your response time starts when you receive this letter. If you are mailing your request, it must be sent by certified mail and postmarked within 10 calendar days from when you receive this order. Please send it to: Commissioner, Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General Licensing Division Attention: Legal Unit PO Box 64242 St. Paul, MN 55164-0242 If your request is being personally delivered, it must be received by DHS within 10 calendar days from when you receive this order. Please bring it to: Commissioner, Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General Licensing Division Attention: Legal Unit 444 Lafayette Road North St. Paul, MN 55155 Upon DHS’ receipt of your timely appeal, your case would be scheduled for a contested case hearing in front of an Administrative Law Judge. Following this hearing, the Commissioner of DHS will issue a final order. Legal representation at the contested case hearing: You do not need a lawyer to appeal. However, a lawyer can help you with your appeal. The state or county will not get you a lawyer and will not pay for a lawyer. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you may be able to get free legal advice or help with your appeal. To find out if free help is available, contact: Volunteer Lawyers Network at 612-752-6677; Central Minnesota Legal Services at 612-332-8151; Southern Minnesota Legal Services at 651-222-4731; or go to www.justice4mn.org to find a local legal services program that may be able to help you. You can also find information on contested cases from the Office of Administrative Hearings website at https://mn.gov/oah/self-help. Click on Administrative Law Overview, then click on Administrative Law Contested Case Hearing Guide for a list of frequently asked questions. Operating the program pending the outcome of the appeal: If you file an appeal within the timeframes described above, you may continue to operate pending the outcome of your appeal. If you continue to operate, you must do so in full compliance with all licensing laws and rules. Failure to follow a law or rule that may impact the health or safety of people served by your program could result in the immediate suspension of your license. You must pay annual fee during suspension: You must pay your annual licensing fee during the period of this suspension. If you do not pay your licensing fee during the suspension period your license will expire and the program will no longer be licensed. See Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.10. Legal authority in this licensing action: · This action is taken under Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.07, subdivision 3, which describes under which conditions DHS may suspend a license. · Minnesota Statutes, section 245.095 defines which programs administered by DHS are included in the exclusion provision, and further defines “excluded,” “individual,” and “provider.” · License holders have a right to appeal licensing actions and request a contested case hearing, under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 14, Minnesota Rules, parts 1400.8505 to 1400.8612, and Minnesota Statutes, section 245A.08. Questions If you have any further questions regarding this matter, you may contact Troy Goudy, Supervisor, at 651-431-6639. Sincerely,
Christala Culhane, Unit Manager Licensing Division Office of Inspector General
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