Normalization of Hospice Fraud
Hospice fraud isn’t just about stealing your tax dollars – in some cases it’s about stealing your life.
Federal
and state authorities raided this illegal hospice ring in southern
California earlier this month, but there are plenty more like it. We
won’t rest until seniors and taxpayers are safe.
(Sixpacks - in southern California. Fake Hospice houses where they put 6 seniors into a house, basically hold them hostage. Given little, almost no care, served moldy food, and charge $6000 a month to do so. Each home nets the fraudsters 36K in income.) Owners do this with multiple homes, then use the income to afford lavish lifestyles of beach homes, luxury cars - all hidden behind other fraudulent covers like calling the beach house a 'church'... interesting rabbit hole to go down if you want something to read with your morning coffee. Look it up.)
Side note: I saw this information too....
Susan
Fanelli, California’s Chief Deputy Director of Health Quality &
Emergency Response. She pulls in $328,000 a year while overseeing the
licensing of hospice centers.
With the massive fraud scandals
blowing up right now, people are asking a pretty simple question: how
many of those shady operations got the green light under her?
It feels like the perfect moment for a real audit to see exactly what’s been going on with taxpayer money in the state.