CBS has picked up the hospice fraud in L.A.

New York and California are fricked. People are leaving in droves

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People are leaving in droves

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They'll move to Red areas and then vote for the same type of shite they voted for in New York and California. Liberals/Democrats are like locusts. They come to a thriving area and then destroy it.

For those who bitch and complain about how the federal government should be providing healthcare, this is what government-provided healthcare looks like.

Is Pam Bondi on it??


Let me guess...

I started looking into hospice/Medicare fraud a while back and found this article from 2022.

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LOS ANGELES (CN) — The California state auditor reported Tuesday that bogus hospice agencies in Los Angeles are likely defrauding Medicare and Medi-Cal on a massive scale, noting a 1,600% increase of such agencies in LA County since 2010.

The rapid, disproportionate growth in the number of hospice agencies in LA County, the excessive geographic clustering of these agencies, the long durations of the services they provide, and the high rates of patients discharged alive are all indicators that these are sham operations, the auditor found.

“We are concerned that numerous unscrupulous individuals are likely creating hospice agencies and applying for licenses to fraudulently bill Medicare and Medi-Cal either for services that they are providing to patients who are ineligible for hospice care or for services that they are not providing at all,” Acting California State Auditor Michael Tilden wrote.

The report pointed to the California Department of Public Health’s “lax licensing process” for allowing the proliferation of bogus hospice agencies, even to the extent that the department didn’t deny applications for a license in cases where its own staff had raised red flags.

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In fact, there appear to be individuals who seek licensure of hospice agencies with the sole intention of selling them. We found online listings selling ‘brand new, never billed’ hospice agencies for hundreds of thousands of dollars and promising high cash flow and profits within a few months.”

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In LA County, the number of hospice agencies ballooned to 1,841 last year, from just 109 in 2010, according to the auditor’s report. As a result, the county has 45 times as many hospice agencies as the state of New York and 59 times as many as Florida per their respective aged populations.

Moreover, the LA County hospice agencies are suspiciously clustered together in parts of the county. In one case, the auditor found 210 active hospice agencies located within 1 mile of each other in the Van Nuys

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One office building in the neighborhood was listed as the address of more than 150 licensed hospice and home-health agencies, according to the report, which appeared to exceed the building’s physical capacity.

In many cases, the hospice agencies weren’t listed on building directories, and in some cases the agencies name was only on a paper sign taped to a door, or the purported door of an agency had no sign at all, according to the report.

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It has been four years since that audit was submitted and changes recommended, yet they have the same rampant fraud issues. It is almost like it is......by design.

I saw the whole story this morning on CBS. It’s infuriating that we’re being ripped off like this.

There are 500 hospice businesses in a 3 square mile area in LA.

You know why the state is lax????????

The state charges every one of those people on medicare at those facilities a processing fee of 274 dollars per month. The BBBill made this illegal and Newsom put it in his budget anyway 13.5 billion.

So they are stealing and the state is taxing their theft and stealing on top of their theft. And everyone is quiet cause the only one getting ripped off is the US taxpayer.

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It has been four years since that audit was submitted and changes recommended, yet they have the same rampant fraud issues.

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Newsom says he’s on it. so we’re in good hands.

What people need to understand is in these Democrat controlled states, the fraud is a feature of the system instead of a bug.

My father is on hospice and I am the one that arranged it. It makes me furious to read this, knowing all of the documentation I had to provide and hoops I had to jump through, for an extremely minimal amount of care. (They come 5 days a week for about 30 minutes to check on him. We private pay everything else.)