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CBS Investigation Finds Over 700 LA Hospices With Fraud Indicators
About 700 of 1,800 hospices in Los Angeles show fraud signs, including empty offices and fake billing, with over $100 million Medicare overbilled in 2019, officials said.
- CBS News reported that out of around 1,800 hospices in Los Angeles, about 700 have indicators of fraud, according to California's standards.
- Medicare hospice fraud can occur when shell companies buy stolen Medicare numbers and bill the government for services they never provide.
- California's Attorney General Rob Bonta said more needs to be done to address hospice fraud, stating, "We need to be responsive to the red flags and react to them, not just count them.
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Visalia Lawmaker Macedo Leads Call on Newsom to Fix 'Rampant' Hospice Fraud
After media reports of what could be widescale fraud in Los Angeles County’s hospice care network, a group of California state legislators, led by Alexandra Macedo, R-Visalia, called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to implement protective measures after years of warnings with no apparent action. They say the governor failed to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to tighten regulations and oversight. “Your administration has failed to produce the emergency regulations f…
Good Journalism: CBS Investigates Rampant Hospice Fraud in Newsom’s California
If CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is going to succeed in turning the car around with decades of liberal bias and oversee an organization that does operate where over two-thirds of Americans operate, she will need more stories like this one from Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Evening News uncovering hospice fraud inside far-left California. CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King had a gripping introduction: “For people reaching the end of their lif…
CBS: Hospice Care 'Ripe for Fraud, Especially in California,' They Had Hundreds with 'Multiple' Red Flags
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CBS Evening News,” CBS National Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi reported on hospice fraud and said there is “an industry ripe for fraud, especially in California” that is “costing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.” He also stated The post CBS: Hospice Care ‘Ripe for Fraud, Especially in California,’ They Had Hundreds with ‘Multiple’ Red Flags appeared first on Breitbart.
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