California authorities have dismantled a major hospice fraud ring in Los Angeles that allegedly defrauded the state’s Medi-Cal program of $267 million using stolen identities.
Attorney General Rob Bonta announced charges against 21 people on Thursday, with five arrests made so far and more than $750,000 in cash recovered. No actual hospice services were provided to patients.
The case has drawn widespread attention online, with many questioning how the scheme went undetected for so long and what it reveals about oversight of taxpayer-funded programs…