JD Vance Suspends 447 More Hospices in L.A. in Ongoing Battle Against Fraud
JD Vance certainly makes a better “Fraud Czar” than Kamala Harris was a “Border Czar.”
Last month, my colleague Mary Chastain reported that Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force suspended 70 hospice and home health care businesses in Los Angeles.
The move came shortly after investigations by CBS News and Nick Shirley revealed a fraud scheme in California involving hospices.
Now Vance’s task has suspended over 400 more.
The anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies suspected of fraud in Los Angeles, with a total fraud estimate of more than $600 million.
The number of suspensions is roughly a 539% increase from the 70 reported by Fox News Digital at the beginning of April.
“Where there is fraud, the task force will find it,” a spokesperson for Vance told Fox News Digital. “We will not stop until every hard-earned taxpayer dollar goes toward the honest Americans who deserve them.”
A White House official doubled down on Vance and the task force’s commitment to root out fraud, and sent a stark warning to those suspected of fraudulent activity.
JD Vance suspends 447 hospices in LA as part of anti-fraud crackdown https://t.co/9gre8yXy6b pic.twitter.com/1scdUSw65q
— New York Post (@nypost) April 15, 2026
And it appears the move to identify and end the alleged fraud is unlikely to end soon.
“To all fraudsters: good luck trying to hide from the Vice President’s task force,” the White House official told Fox News Digital. “[The anti-fraud task force is] reviewing and pursuing every possible lead. These suspension numbers, and the dollar values saved, are only going to increase.”
The rising numbers add to the $259.5 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota that Vance and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced plans to block in February.
The move followed Gov. Tim Walz’s January decision not to seek a third term, made amid growing scrutiny of fraud in state programs.
JD Vance certainly makes a better “Fraud Czar” than Kamala Harris was a “Border Czar.”
JD certainly makes a better "Fraud Czar" than Kamala Harris was a "Border Czar", https://t.co/gmxxfnyYpG
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) April 15, 2026
As the numbers climb and enforcement widens, it’s clear that Vance’s anti-fraud initiative is more than just political theater and is actually producing tangible results.
While critics will likely frame the suspensions as heavy-handed attacks on “Blue States,” taxpayers are watching billions in public funds being siphoned away by criminals and illegal aliens, and may see it differently.
In contrast to the empty titles and missed opportunities of prior administrations, JD Vance seems to have embraced his “Fraud Czar” moniker, and taxpayers finally appear to be benefiting.
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It won’t be just the blue states.
Federal entitlement/welfare fraud should be aggressively investigated and prosecuted wherever it occurs. That said, it does seem to be a factual reality that the most pervasive, brazen and costly frauds/thefts, are occurring in Dhimmi-crat-run states, as a predictable consequence of the Dhimmi-crats’ soft-on-crime ethos, and the party’s belief that prosecuting criminals “of color” is allegedly racist. Thus do the Dhimmi-crats enable and protect the fraudsters/thieves, as has occurred in Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Commiefornia, and other states.
True, but the blue will provide at least an order of magnitude or two (maybe three) larger numbers of fraudsters per capita.
Good!
Very true. Fraud will be found anywhere lax supervision was employed by a bureaucracy and a political class more interested in shoving $ out the door than the eligibility of the recipients.
Undoubtedly, but we will benefit from the same effect as ICE encounters. In the red states, the authorities are infinitely more likely to jump on the fraud and assist in the prosecution themselves, rather than waste time and credibility on #resistance against Vance.
People need to go to jail, otherwise they’ll simply create a new fraud.
You see ‘balloon companies’ acting as fronts while the real fraudsters handle the paperwork. In case of a pending investigation, the fraud-company pops, goes bankrupt, leaves no assets, and the face-people vanish, frequently to other countries where a few hundred thousand can be a nice retirement in a big house with a maid. Then the fraudulent paperwork company turns the crank, produces a new bundle of paper for the next group, and onward they go while the investigation pulls up nothing but sand. The paperwork mills are where the real money is made, skimming a percentage from each of the pseudo-companies they created, manage from a respectable distance, and bury when they are no longer useful.
Yes, I noticed the suspensions but where are the arrests?
When does the inevitable #Resistance Federal judge block this?
dont you know that stopping corruption goes right to the base of the dnc money supply!!!??
we’re gonna pisss off a lot more people
maga!
IF these were LEGIT hospices, then the screaming from patients/customers would be loud and endless.
Crickets. Silence.
Another indicator that these NOT legit.
Keep up the good work!!
//OLDSCHOOL SENDS//
Many of our government’s benefit programs depend on the honor system.
A lot of whales going through a lot of nets lately.
“Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams: Letter to Officers of the Mass. Militia, 1798
Exactly. The outdated reliance upon some version of ‘nobody would do that’ bears much of the blame. Like an unlocked front door it attracts the criminally minded and the lack of negative consequences (long prison terms and full financial restitution) create incentives for others to join in instead of deterring them.
A simple computer program could be made to check hospice patients with death certificates issued and it would be quickly obvious that they are fake. Most hospice patients are just about dead when they are accepted into the care and do not last long. Also, the disability programs are rampant with abuse. The solution to that is large cash rewards for reporting people who fake it.
The CA model, at least in some reporting, seems to have signed up ghost patients into the fraudulent hospices essentially stealing their ID to do so to push more ‘patients’ into the system to generate more billing theft. Then these folks who got signed up get hammered with bureaucratic purgatory when they need medical care. ID theft and benefit fraud using someone’s ID/SSA#/DL #, Name, Addresses and PII has got to be made far more costly in terms of mandatory minimum prison term, financial restitution and a priority of US Attorneys for prosecution. As georgefelis in his post the brokers of stolen/fake ID/PII is the fulcrum for much of the fraud. Not just bilking Medicare or Medicaid but for docs needed for employment of illegal aliens, issuing DL, professional licences all.sorts of things. Shut down the brokers by putting them into prison for 50 years to life and maybe it will deter some folks.
The sales team at ServiceNow and the big consulting firms are wetting their chops at the tidal wave of governance auditing and compliance business that is about to come their way via the fraud prevention.
The Control testing cannon will be fired until the barrels melt.
Why didn’t someone visit the “hospices” before money was sent out? DOD has many people interfacing between contractors and DOD. If you are large enough (Lockheed, Boeing, etc.), the DOD people will have offices in the company building.
During COVID, for the unemployment scandal, Apple Maps, or Google earth would have caught people who used a prison address or a non-residential address.
This is a sort of block grant environment, isn’t it? The hospices don’t get their funds directly from the feds, the state pays the bills and the feds send grant money to the state… right? Which is why the really concentrated fraud is turning up in the blue states, they vouch for the crooks and pay the claims without vetting anything. At least that’s my understanding, am I wrong?
I think that’s correct about the flow. State is supposed to certify eligibility, monitor it, make payments and then Feds reimburse.
A block grant would actually be better for mitigation of fraud. Set the block grant based on demographics of US Citizens present in the State; Y number of 65+ with an average % likely needing Hospice at Z average cost and there’s the amount of the block grant to pay for it.
The issue is PR on enforcement of consequences. If the State blows the $ on bogus claims in the first quarter that’s tough cookies. They got 0 $ for the rest of the year and the folks who actually qualify and need it can’t get it. Media would run wild with sob stories and DC would buckle and send emergency funding. I doubt we could even get agreement to fire the bureaucracy that allowed the fraud that drained the funds.
The States run these programs but much of the money comes from the federal government.
That’s a big part of the reason why there is so much fraud right there.
The States have no incentive to ensure that the businesses are legit to begin with, and no incentive to check in on them periodically as they’re supposed to, because they see the entire program as a way to draw federal dollars into the State.
If you really want to do something here, there needs to be a divorce, permanently, across all programs of this practice.
Terminate all of the federal welfare programs. Let the Stares run their own programs, with their own tax money, or not, as they see fit.
California’s reaction to Nick Shirley showing up and in a few days uncovering billions in fraud isn’t to say “holy cow, how did this fly under the radar? Who ignored this”? It was for Democrats to file a “Nice Shirley Act” bill in Sacramento to penalize anyone who did what he did, that is, uncover fraud. If you have no interest in stopping the money laundering then stop people from talking about it.
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