For months, the Trump administration has focused on California as a hotbed of hospice fraud — a crime in which fraudsters enroll older people who aren’t terminally ill into hospice care, then charge Medicare millions.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Head of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, alleged that Los Angeles County may account for $3.5 billion in hospice and home healthcare fraud, per KFF News.
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This week, the U.S. Department of Justice carried out a bust, charging 15 people in the Los Angeles area with defrauding Medicare out of $1.8 billion. Of that, $138 million involved alleged hospice scams.
Among the accused are a hospice medical director alleged to have signed false certificates of terminal illness for people who weren’t terminally ill…