Hospice News November 14, 2025
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should investigate home health and hospice fraud and reconsider the data behind the agency’s determination of home health payment rates.
On Thursday, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) submitted a letter to CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz calling for CMS to thoroughly investigate fraudulent billing practices in Los Angeles County, California. This investigation would ensure that fraud does not distort national home health payment policy, according to Tenney, who called the Medicare home health benefit “among the most efficient and humane parts of our health system.”
“I recently received alarming information documenting large-scale fraud in Los Angeles County’s home health sector,” she wrote. “Specifically, the data reveals a disturbing pattern centered around physicians...
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