Earlier this month, the California Attorney General’s office filed charges against 21 people tied to a $267 million Medi-Cal hospice fraud ring.
The case, dubbed Operation Skip Trace, accuses the defendants of buying stolen personal information on the dark web, enrolling those identities in Medi-Cal through Covered California, and running 14 shell hospice companies that billed the state for end-of-life care that was never provided…