How did 89 hospices end up linked to a 3-story LA building? We went to investigate.
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89 hospice companies licensed to one LA building raises red flags for potential fraud and regulatory evasion.
How This Affects You
If you or a family member uses hospice care, fraudulent providers operating from shell addresses may compromise care quality and billing integrity, potentially affecting your out-of-pocket costs and end-of-life care standards.
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CBS News investigated a three-story Los Angeles office building where state records show 89 hospice companies hold licenses—an arrangement that industry advocates and state auditors flag as a major red flag for fraud. The concentration of hospices at a single address represents an extreme example of "clustering," a licensing pattern that state regulators consider suspicious because legitimate hospice operations typically require separate physical locations to serve patients across different areas. Hospice fraud schemes have cost Medicare and Medicaid billions in recent years, making the identification of suspicious licensing patterns critical to protecting vulnerable end-of-life patients and public health programs. The CBS News investigation documents how a single building came to house dozens of nominally separate hospice entities, raising questions about regulatory oversight and whether the licenses represent legitimate operations or shell companies designed to exploit government reimbursement systems.
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State auditors have flagged the clustering pattern as a major red flag, though no specific investigations or enforcement actions are mentioned in the article.
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