The $4.2 million scam involved 2 San Bernardino companies allegedly enrolling patients into hospice care when they weren't terminally ill.
The companies are accused of enrolling patients who were terminally ill into hospice care, many without knowledge or understanding of it involves.“End-of-life care is a difficult process for families to endure, and patients should be able to trust that their hospice providers are acting in good faith,” Bonta said in a statement.
The investigation by the California Department of Justice, with help from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office and California EDD, found that between 2015 and 2021, the two companies’ employees billed Medicare and Med-Cal for millions of dollars, fraudulently claiming that they were providing hospice care to patients who had less than six months to live, according to Bonta’s office.
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