Fake hospice and home health care providers are estimated to have taken in billions of dollars in health care funding in L.A. County.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz announced during a press conference that his agency is investigating billions of dollars in alleged fraudulent healthcare funding in California. Roughly $3.5 billion has been spent in Los Angeles County for hospice and home healthcare.
Dr. Oz stated, “What we’re seeing in Minnesota, which is billions of dollars of fraud that hurts our most vulnerable people and puts them at risk… is dwarfed by what I saw in California, which is whole-scale cultural malfeasance around health care.”
The CMS administrator said that a sevenfold increase in hospice care has occurred in Los Angeles County, California, which does not line up with the number of deaths they reported in that county. He stated, “These are fraudsters, and these do tend to be foreign influences, either Russian and Armenian gangs, mafia, that are leading a lot of these efforts.”
The fraud being reported currently appears to utilize fake hospice providers comprised of approximately 100 doctors who convince patients that they are dying in order to enroll them into hospice care. It is estimated that about 100,000 people have currently given their Medicare numbers to these fraudulent programs. This totals to about
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For CMS Administrator Oz as he oversees investigations into welfare fraud in various states.
- For members of the fraud task force as they track federal payments to health providers and businesses.
- For state governors to work with federal officials to investigate the fraud allegations.
Sources: NY Post, LA Times, Epoch Times
