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CBS News finds fraud spreading across LA
Hospice fraud in Los Angeles County is getting worse, not better.
A CBS News investigation published March 10, 2026, looked at every hospice operating in LA County and found more than 700 of roughly 1,800 trigger multiple fraud red flags defined by the state.
Those red flags include geographic clustering, tiny patient counts, high rates of patients discharged alive, excessive billing, and staff shared across companies…