A sweeping investigation reveals how California’s hospice industry has exploited the state’s Medicaid program through widespread fraud, diverting billions meant for end-of-life care. Beyond financial losses, the scheme has left patients denied proper medical attention while providers pocketed funds through deceptive billing practices and unnecessary enrollments. Authorities allege coordinated schemes involving unnecessary hospitalizations and falsified death certificates to extend fraudulent claims. The scandal underscores systemic failures in oversight, raising urgent questions about accountability in one of the nation’s most vulnerable healthcare programs.
California hospice fraud is not just fleecing taxpayers.
