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Feds target billions in fake billing
Federal officials say Los Angeles County sits at the center of a massive hospice fraud problem.
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz estimated roughly $3.5 billion in fraudulent hospice and home health billing is coming out of the county alone.
That’s staggering when you consider LA County holds only about 2.5% of the U.S. population but accounts for about 18% of all home health and hospice Medicare billing nationwide…