Hospice Fraud in Los Angeles Raises Alarm Over Taxpayer Losses

Liberty Check

• HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said hospice fraud in Los Angeles may have cost taxpayers $5 billion.
• The Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force has suspended federal funding for hundreds of suspicious facilities.
• Investigators found fraudulent operators enrolling healthy people in end-of-life care programs for federal payouts.

Federal officials are finally addressing a massive web of corruption.

Hundreds of hospice licenses were registered to single, fake addresses.

The scheme involved bribing residents in poor neighborhoods with electronics and cash.

They were enrolled in medical programs they did not need.

“We’ve already shut down 500 hospices and Los Angeles, and incidentally, we haven’t had one call from Congress or anybody else about complaining because clearly these were fraudulent.”

Kennedy noted that legitimate hospice care usually lasts roughly 18 days.

Many of these fraudulent enrollees remained in the system indefinitely without ever falling ill.

This unchecked looting of the treasury highlights the urgent need for strict oversight of taxpayer-funded social programs.

“Typically, the stay in a hospice is about 18 days, these people stayed forever. Nothing ever happened because they weren’t actually there, they were just invented.”

Reports of similar welfare and childcare fraud rings have surfaced in Minnesota, Maine, and Washington state.

Protecting the integrity of the national budget requires a ruthless elimination of these criminal syndicates.

They exploit American generosity.

The Constitution must be defended.

Click here for more on the hospice fraud probe.