Medicare Data Stolen For Hospice Fraud
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“California is ground zero for fraudulent hospice companies, bilking Medicare for hundreds of millions of dollars in fake claims.”
“is ground zero for fraudulent hospice companies, bilking Medicare for hundreds of millions of dollars in fake claims. It's triggered a blame game between Washington and Sacramento”
“California has become an epicenter of hospice fraud with sham companies defrauding Medicare out of hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“hospice is a treatment for people who have just a couple months left to live. It's different from regular medical care in that it's not supposed to be treating an illness as in curing it, but just kind of providing palliative care”
“We have a lot of the safeguards that other states have that require hospices to prove that they're actually needed before they open.”
“So the state did an audit in 2022 that found just like signs of rampant fraud. There's like a single building where more than a hundred hospices are registered.”
“all of the sort of attention on the issue from what I can tell started in 2020 with a story, an investigation by the LA Times, which prompted legislation, including legislation calling for the audit.”
“saying there couldn't be any new hospice licenses issued until the state”
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