US EditionCalifornia officials charge 21 people in hospice fraud exceeding $250 million
Prosecutors say the defendants used stolen identities and sham hospices to file about $267 million in bogus Medi-Cal claims.
- On Thursday, State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the dismantling of Operation Skip Trace, a hospice fraud scheme that defrauded California's Medi-Cal system of $267 million, with 21 individuals charged.
- Conspirators purchased non-California residents' personal information on the dark web and enrolled them in Medi-Cal without their knowledge, then billed the state through 14 hospice companies for services never provided.
- Over 130 shell companies laundered the stolen funds across bank accounts, payment apps and cryptocurrency, including a $33 million deposit linked to Sarkis Ksachikyan, prosecutors said.
- The Trump administration labeled Southern California a 'kingdom of fraud' and accused the state of failing to address hospice fraud, while Bonta rejected these claims as political attempts to boost President Donald Trump's approval.
- Hospice fraud occurs across all 50 states, Bonta noted, while federal authorities continue anti-fraud efforts involving over $50 million in arrests in Southern California last week.
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Criminals bought identities outside the state and registered them with CoveredCA
California Authorities Arrest 5 in $267 Million Hospice Fraud Scheme; Over 700 Facilities Under Scrutiny
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Results: CBS Focus on California Hospice Fraud Yields Arrests, Trump Admin Banning Doctor
On Thursday’s CBS Evening News and Friday’s CBS Mornings, correspondent Adam Yamaguchi revealed the network’s focus on rampant Medicare fraud in California’s hospice system has begun to bear fruit as local officials arrested nearly two dozen Thursday and the Trump administration banned the doctor at the center of one of Yamaguchi’s probes from filing claims. Yet again, though, there remained one glaring issue with CBS’s reporting, which is the f…
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