The Numbers That Made Fox Show Up
Los Angeles County has roughly 1,800 licensed hospice providers – about six times the national average for a region its size.Dr. Oz estimates LA County alone accounts for roughly $3.5 billion in hospice and home care fraud annually. Of those 1,800 hospices, CBS News found over 700 still operating despite triggering multiple fraud red flags.
On a single stretch of Van Nuys Boulevard, investigators found 42 hospice licenses registered within four blocks – many sharing the same multi-tenant office buildings.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, now running Medicare and Medicaid, stood in that neighborhood and put it plainly: "Either there are a lot of people dying here, or you got a fraudulent activity that is so good everyone wants to get in on it."
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