A new investigation is adding to the growing mountain of evidence that a network of hundreds of hospices are allegedly ripping off tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers across California.
And ground zero for the alleged fraud — a stretch of road in Van Nuys.
“You can’t throw a rock without hitting [a] hospice,” Sheila Clark, President and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA), told CBS News.
The new findings highlight what the California Post exclusively reported earlier this month, that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now actively cutting off payments to suspicious operations across Los Angeles, which is home to almost half of America’s end-of-life care providers.
Indications of fraud have not…
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