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.
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.”
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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