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Jan. 17, 2026 - Epoch Times
04:14
Dr. Mehmet Oz Breaks Down ‘Stunning’ Healthcare Fraud in California

🔴 WATCH THE FULL EPISODE: https://ept.ms/4pIjxUsShow more “What’s happened in California is a tolerance and acceptance of fraud,” Dr. Mehmet Oz told me in a recent interview, describing widespread hospice scams that have proliferated in California, especially in LA County. He estimates there’s as much as $4 billion in hospice and home-healthcare fraud in California, fueled by providers billing Medicare for services never delivered and patients who should never have been enrolled. Show less

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What's happened in California is a tolerance and acceptance of fraud.
They realized that they could pay doctors to move people into hospice.
The hospice is designed for the last six months of your life.
It means you're going to die.
These hospice programs are created when the most common reason that you'd enter it is cancer.
But these days, not everyone with cancer dies, but also you're putting a lot of people with Alzheimer's and other conditions in there.
So it became a little harder to police whether people are going into hospice.
But what happens if 100% of the people in hospice survive six months?
Like, nobody dies.
And that happens.
Doesn't sound like hospice.
Doesn't sound like hospice.
Doctors are being paid to send people inappropriately to hospice.
Now, that's a problem because if you're put into hospice, you actually give up the rest of your health care protection.
You no longer get traditional Medicare benefits because you're in hospice, you're dying.
So we're not going to pay all these extra expenses for things that aren't going to benefit you because you've decided to pull back.
Voluntarily, you've decided that you're not going to go out there and try to get everything done for you possible to help you live longer.
You've made peace with the end.
But people are put on hospice who don't know it.
They don't realize it.
And so now they don't have access to regular Medicare anymore.
So people are dying because they can't get care because they were falsely tricked into being on hospice.
Now, that's a major concern for me.
But then I began to look into how this could possibly happen.
How is it that we've gotten seven times more hospice in California over the last several years?
Do we have seven times more people dying?
Like, what's going on here?
And you begin to realize it's systemic fraud.
Everyone decided not to do anything about this.
We're not going to look at it.
It's too painful, too difficult.
Maybe some groups may benefit financially from not checking into this.
The doctors are getting engaged so much in the hospice that it's beginning to undermine the basic ethos of the healthcare profession.
I'll tell you one whistleblower story that will chill you, and then we should move on to the good news in healthcare because there's plenty of it.
I was talking to a gentleman who owns five hospice centers.
Now, if you own five hospices, you have to ask yourself why.
You own five hospices because you're hiding the ball.
You want to have a lot of patients split over a lot of different centers so that we can't track you as well.
Anyways, he's building this beautiful mansion, massive house, because he's got a lot of money, right?
Because he's stealing money from these hospice programs.
The plumber comes in and says, you know, I see you're in the hospice business.
I've got a little side hustle.
I own a hospice business.
And the guy who's the doctor says, really?
Because, yeah, I'm a plumber, but I got a hospice business.
You don't have to really be a doctor to own hospice.
And then the carpenter who's next to him is building the cabinet says, hey, what do you know?
I got a hospice business too.
So both of the folks who are doing plumbing and carpentering have side hustle businesses, the contractors in hospice.
The guy building the house makes a lot of money.
And so that guy, I started asking, well, how'd you make all this money?
He goes, well, you know, I go to doctors.
I mean, low-life doctors?
No, I go like to the doctors at Cedar Sinai.
Now, this is an allegation.
I can't prove this.
But I don't know why he'd lie to me.
You know, I'm trying to learn and he's willing to offer some insights.
He says, the doctors at this hospital are willing to send me some patients.
And I said, that's weird, really.
They just pay them and they give me, yeah, because the doctor said if I gave him a thousand bucks a month or something, that he'd send me patients.
And then I started to do that in other hospitals.
And then I'd ask the doctors to send me the patients from the hospital directly.
And they say, oh, no, no, no.
We can't send you the patients from our hospitals directly because our board members own hospice.
And the board members of the hospital want that hospital to send patients to their hospice.
You understand the level of perversion here?
We've got low-life who shouldn't be in the business, right?
And not every doctor finished top of our class, right?
A lot of doctors have lost their way.
They're getting paid.
They're paying other doctors.
Accusations are that people with money who are involved in hospitals are also being paid in these unscrupulous endeavors.
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