Dr. Mehmet Oz/Image: Video screenshot via CSPAN.
In March, investigative journalist Nick Shirley released video on uncovering $170 million in fraud in California.
“We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences,” Nick Shirley said.
“California’s version of Medicaid called ‘Medi-Cal’ has more than doubled since 2022 from $108 billion to a proposed $222 billion in 2026. Their population, however, has not grown exponentially. However, their spending has,” Nick Shirley said.
“There has been a 1,000 percent increase in hospice care in Los Angeles County,” Nick Shirley said. It’s estimated that the fraud in California could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Nick Shirley visited ‘hospices’ in Los Angeles and ‘daycares’ in San Diego.
In early April, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced his office had charged 21 suspects in a $267 million hospice fraud ring in Southern California.
A Trump administration Fraud Task Force also conducts raids against healthcare fraudsters across the southern part of the state. Eight people were arrested and charged with over $50 MILLION in fraud.
Signaling the staggering level of fraud in the Democrat-run state, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, told journalist Katie Pavlich that NOT ONE of the 450 hospices in California that have had their payments paused has called to have them reinstated.
Katie Pavlich: What is the response to Democrats arguing that this rooting out of fraud, that it’s cutting Medicaid services? What is your response to that?
Dr. Oz: Not at all. They know it’s manufactured. That’s why when they say this sort of, you know, like sheepishly mention the possibility that you might once in a while hurt someone that’s innocent. I argue that if you take a child with autism and you give them the services they need, you’re doing a great service. It’s the right thing to do. We’re great people. We’ll always help folks in need. But if every mother is pretending because they’re getting paid, that the children in the neighborhood have autism, which is bad for those kids, by the way.
Katie Pavlich: And you’re seeing that?
Dr. Oz: And we’re seeing that in Minnesota. You take a budget from $3 million to $400 million. You do that by creating programs and manufacturing services that aren’t supposed to be used. But what you’re doing is you’re hurting the child who really has autism ’cause they can’t get access to services, and you’re corrupting the entire system.
We’re seeing the same thing in California with hospice, where you have 1/3 of all the hospices, Katie, in the entire country are in Los Angeles, not California, just LA. I mean, how many people are dying there? So you obviously have allowed something to leak.
And I’ll make this announcement on your show.
We have stopped payments to 450 hospices in California. Guess what?
Not one has called us asking to reinstitute them.
Now they may change their minds over time, but in 10 weeks, we’ve shut down 450 payment systems to these guys. That’s representing at least $600, $700 million just this year. And no one’s complaining.
Watch:
Dr Oz confirms that after stopping payments to 450 hospices in California, still NOT ONE has called and asked to have their payments reinstated
450 hospices out of 450 hospices in California were fraud
He says collectively they stole $750 million in just on year pic.twitter.com/t6iBl2flQL
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