Federal agents arrested eight in a major California hospice fraud crackdown.
The scheme recruited healthy people to falsely pose as terminally ill patients.
Authorities allege the fraud stole an estimated $60 million from Medicare.
A federal official claimed half of Southern California’s hospices are fraudulent.
State oversight was blamed for enabling the fraud through lax licensing.
A major federal crackdown on hospice care fraud in California has resulted in eight arrests, exposing a brazen scheme to steal tens of millions from Medicare by recruiting healthy people to pose as dying patients. The April 2 operation, spearheaded by Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force, targeted 15 suspects in Los Angeles County accused of bilking taxpayers out of an estimated $60 million.
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