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Ep. 80 | The California Hospice Fraud Scandal Is Worse Than Anyone Thought
California is facing a massive hospice fraud scandal. A bombshell investigation by CBS News found that more than 700 hospice providers in Los Angeles County alone show signs of fraud, with some operating out of empty offices while billing millions to the Medicare system! After Gavin Newsom launched a civil rights investigation into comments made by Mehmet Oz about the problem, the controversy has only grown. This week, I break down what hospice fraud is, what investigators uncovered, how California’s oversight failures allowed it to happen – and what accountability could look like moving…
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