The White House’s new Fraud Task Force, led by Vice President JD Vance, has made its first arrests in California, uncovering a massive hospice fraud scheme.
In one of the schemes, patients were admitted, exploited for their Medicare benefits, and then kicked out when they were no longer useful. In another, patients were bribed with monthly payments while the providers pocketed the taxpayer-funded subsidies.
BREAKING: The White House Fraud Task Force has taken down it's FIRST target in California. HUGE!
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"The feds are here for a REASON."
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"This is the first takedown for the new White House Fraud Task Force," Fox News' William La Jeunesse said. "They arrested two owners of two hospices here in Greater Los Angeles. They're accused of collectively stealing about 16 million dollars from taxpayers, and this money was intended for compassionate end-of-life care for the terminally ill."
Co-owners of the St. Francis Palliative Care Hospice were arrested for admitting patients who didn’t qualify for hospice care while billing the government roughly $30,000 per patient. Once the benefits ran out, the patients were kicked out. The owners were also forging documents and medical records while collecting taxpayer funds, totaling over seven million dollars.
A second arrest came at Topanga Hospice, where the owners were bribing patients, handing out $600 a month in envelopes, while collecting around $6,000 a month from the federal government for each person. They even hired marketers to track down seniors to use in the scheme.
Altogether, the hospice operation billed the government for about eight million dollars, signing up people who weren’t eligible and weren’t even terminally ill.
"The name of this endeavor has been a project called Never Say Die, because the folks who are in the nursing and hospice facilities owned by this couple and their family don't seem to ever pass away," La Jeunesse said, having revealed earlier that "Nationally, 80 percent of people admitted to hospice die, usually in the first few weeks." However, at these hospice facilities, "almost nobody died. After eight months, 97 percent were still alive."
"So, the feds are here for a reason," he added. "California was giving out thousands of hospice licenses to people who were unqualified, no oversight, and, of course, taxpayers have been paying for it ever since."
This comes as top California Democrats have denied allegations that their state has a fraud problem.
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