Dr. Mehmet Oz runs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He just sent out this social media post:

The biggest fraud in LA involves some 100 fake hospice providers who convinced some 100,000 patients that they were dying in order to enroll them in their care with taxpayer dollars.

Oz says this is both cruel and a danger to life:

“If you’re put into hospice, you actually give up the rest of your healthcare protection, and you don’t have access to regular Medicare anymore…. People are dying because they can’t get care because they were falsely tricked into being on hospice.”

Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, says many hospices were reporting survival rates of 100% for facilities that were meant to be for the end of life. They should be called “Lazarus Centers.”

Who’s at fault? Essayli blames Governor Gavin Newsom: “He has reigned over more fraud than I think we’ve ever seen in American history. He is the fraud king.”