The Post Millennial About 500 hospices are operating within a three-mile radius, with 137 of them located on Van Nuys Boulevard alone.
This comes after the state of California issued a crackdown on the hospice care industry after a 2023 state audit showed that LA County hospices overbilled Medicare by $105 million in one year, resulting in the revocation of 280 hospice licenses. Auditors were triggered to investigate the matter after seeing a 1,500% increase in hospice companies since 2010.
Despite the effort, the CBS News report shows that there appears to be a significant amount of fraud still occurring. When reporters went to one building in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, they found 89 different hospice care providers registered at the building. The building appeared to be predominantly empty and had overflowing mailboxes, signaling indicators of fraud, per the report.
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