Dr. Oz warns foreign nationals may be tied to US hospice fraud, points to LA as hotspot
Networks of foreign nationals may be linked to U.S. hospice fraud, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz warned Wednesday in a FOX Business special, pointing to one major city as a key area of concern.
"You have to ask yourself exactly how many people are actually dying in Los Angeles," Oz told host David Asman.
"[There are] almost 2,000 hospices in LA County. We believe half of them could be fraudulent, and the reason for this is because Los Angeles and the state of California...