Los Angeles neighborhood home to 42 Hospices in four block radius, claims Dr. Oz

Dr.Oz claims to have uncovered rampant health care fraud in California, declaring he’s found a whopping 42 hospices in just a four block radius.Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, posted a video Tuesday cruising through Van Nuys, pointing to medical buildings plastered with Armenian writing and claiming they’re tied to a multibillion-dollar hospice and home-care fraud scheme.“In this four block area in Los Angeles, there are 42 hospices,” Dr.

Oz said, “So, either there are a lot of people dying here, or you got a fraudulent activity that is so good everyone wants to get in on it.”California Governor Gavin Newsom blasted Dr.Mehmet Oz for cosplaying as a “fraud fighter,” and pushed back on his claims that Los Angeles County has become the “epicenter of health care fraud in America.” “Amazing to watch Dr.

Oz cosplay as a fraud fighter for an effort the STATE launched years ago — back when he was busy pitching ‘miracle’ horse supplements to insomniacs on late-night TV,” Newsom’s office said in a social media post Tuesday. Dr.Oz announced earlier this month that the Trump administration was cracking down on health care fraud in California, claiming a network run by Russian and Armenia gangs is working with doctors to obtain medicare numbers and enroll patients into Hospice. “They’ve got 100,000 patients who they’ve tricked or paid to give them their beneficiary numbers so they can perpetuate the fraud and then the criminals are just running the whole organization and quickly scurrying away when law enforcement does get around to prosecute them,” Dr.

Oz said. But since the initial announcement on Jan 9, the CMS Administrator has not revealed any new or specific cases that have stemmed from the investigation – only referring to fraud cases that have already been tried. Newsom refuted claims of massive fraud, and underscored his decision in 2022 to ban all new hospices as well as revoke more than 280 lice...