About 500 hospices are operating within a three-mile radius, with 137 of them located on Van Nuys Boulevard alone.
A CBS News investigation has revealed indicators of widespread fraud occurring in California’s hospice care industry, particularly in Los Angeles County. The report analyzed the current licenses and business records of roughly 1,800 hospice care centers in the county and found that over 700 of them, or 42 percent, triggered red flags for fraud.
This comes after the state of California issued a crackdown on the hospice care industry after a 2023 state audit showed that LA County hospices overbilled Medicare by $105 million in one year, resulting in the revocation of 280 hospice licenses. Auditors were triggered to investigate the matter after seeing a 1,500% increase in hospice companies since 2010.
