We have been reporting on the astonishing levels of fraud in the Medicaid system, especially in hospice services.
The level of abuse in this system involving California services is mind-blowing. Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force originally suspended 70 hospice and home health care businesses in Los Angeles at the start of his efforts.
The move came shortly after investigations by CBS News and Nick Shirley revealed a fraud scheme in California involving hospices.
Then Vance’s task force suspended over 400 more.
Subsequently, House of Representatives lawmakers convened on Capitol Hill to hold a hearing on Medicare fraud. The witness testimony regarding fiscal abuse and corruption is staggering.
Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, focused on what advocates call “ground zero” for hospice fraud in LA County, telling lawmakers about empty offices with mail piled up, whose owners purport to be providing hospice services.
When someone is fraudulently enrolled in hospice care, it can be difficult to get unenrolled. Many victims spend hours trying to get someone to help them remove the care they do not need and were fraudulently signed up for. Hospice care enrollment also often disqualifies them from getting other medical care they do need through Medicare....
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