- 18% of THE WHOLE COUNTRY’S home health care billing is coming out of Los Angeles County - One doctor billed the government $120 million in a single year claiming to oversee 1,900 patients - With almost 2,000 hospice agencies, Los… pic.twitter.com/0mTPG1ENL2
…hospice agencies, Los Angeles County has more than 36 states combined and 30X MORE than the whole state of Florida and New York
“How is that possible? And take a look at this map, a cluster of 287 hospice providers, in a two-mile radius, some in strip malls, unmarked buildings, even a wrecking yard and vacant lot. All of it is just paperwork. I could fill that out in Kazakhstan if I want and get a hospice license waiting for me.”
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Hospice care sounds like it’s a retirement plan for some. I bet it will be discovered that people are in LA are in hospice care for 20 years in many cases. In other cases hospice might extend into eternity. There are probably 50 doctors there that are acting like Charon, the Styx Ferryman, by designating astronomical numbers of people into hospice care for a modest fee.
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Got to wonder if you cut all federal spending for any and all programs not covered in the Constitution authority of the national government, how much spending would end.
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Yes there is no doubt that there is some fraud in the medical and medical insurance field.
I work in the health insurance field and some of this doesn't sound right. It's common to have a MD oversee/supervise what is called mid level providers (physician assistant, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and a few others depending on the state). $120 million sounds like a lot , but a skilled facility (SNF) or long term care (LTC) will bill $30,000 per month, per patient and that was Roanoke, VA. Those that are more desirable bill even more. 250 patients x $30,000 x 12 months = $90,000,000. You get a MD and some mid level providers servicing 2 or 3 facilities of 250 patients it gets easy to bill $120 M a year.
Hospice, SNF, LTC and other IP providers require an authorization justifying the length of stay and care being given. So if there is substantial fraud, the company that handles CA would have to be involved and that's a lot of moving parts & people complicit. Probably too many to keep the secret. Hospice means the patient is expected to die within 6 months.
It's entirely possible that the people reporting this don't understand the cost or have the faintest idea of the costs involved.
It wouldn't surprise me at all that CA is paying for illegals to get care.
The $30,000 I mentioned is the amount quoted to me by a billing weenie from a SNF/LTC my father was in. I'll be happy to answer questions people have, mods maybe roll this over to tomorrow to allow for questions?
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And the staff of a SNF< LTC or Hospice are saints and angels. I can't imagine doing that job day after day. They are underpaid, overworked and have to deal with patients that are incontinent, disabled, confused and often in a lot of pain every day.
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Maybe Hotel California was actually about hospice care based on the financials.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/04/2026 5:34 Comments ||
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Note:
I guess the $100 Billion wasn't taxed enough to offset the California $18 Billion 2026 deficit. Given the massive number HOSPICE persons dying and or persons leaving California.
What is allowed by US Medicaid
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/downloads/medicaid-hospice-rate-letter-FY2025.pdf
At around $34K per person Max per year.
$100B / $34K = 2,941,176 claimed California Hospice Patients out of California stated population of 39.5 million as of July 2025.
Which means about 13.4% would have had to be in Hospice.
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For hospice, I think (but am not 100% sure) that to do that, would mean creating 'new' fake patients on a regular basis to replace the existing fake patients that 'died' in hospice. That would require creating a patient, patient history and patient medical history. So patient A is created including personal identifying information and a fake medical history that shows the steps from being 'healthy' to requiring hospice (with most patients dying within 6 months). A quick search suggests that 12 - 15 percent last longer then 6 months. Once patient A dies, a 'new' patient would need to be created to keep money coming in.
I don't know how the fraud is working at such a high level. A doctor/group/facility (All providers have to have a National Provider Identification (NPI) assigned by Medicare) would be required for the referral (and documentation to support it) to hospice. An inpatient stay at a hospital would be expected (guessing at least 75% of the patients would be expected to have that hospital IP stay) before hospice. If you include CA's insurance and the company that manages the insurance, that's a lot of people involved to get past the checks & balances in place to stop fraud and insurance companies are usually very motivated to prevent fraud since it impacts them financially.
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1 The $100 Billion headline is the conclusion of one tweeter. I don't see any basis for this. Dr Oz has estimated the fraudulent billing in LA county as 'possibly $3.5 Billion.
2. The 'patients' were, in general, not real. The fraudsters got hold of their Medicare number and falsified docs. One of the ways they got the Medicare numbers by promising free walkers, scooters and wheelchairs to people in Senior housing or at Senior social events.
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02/04/2026 8:35 Comments ||
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I'll add that my employer has a special investigations unit (SIU) to look for fraud and at least some were former police. I'd be surprised if other health insurance companies didn't have a unit to investigate fraud.
[RedState] Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is onto something. And the right people are terrified.
As my colleague Bob Hoge reported, after Gabbard appeared on the scene at the operation to secure the multi-year crime scene that is the Fulton County, Georgia, Election Hub and Operation Center (see FBI Raids Fulton County Election Hub Days After Trump Vows Prosecutions for 2020 Election - Here We Go — RedState and 700 Boxes of Ballots Seized After FBI Executes Fulton County Warrant, Dems Try to Develop ’Legal Plan’ — RedState), she was the subject of thinly sourced, scurrilous "leak" to The Wall Street Journal that seemed to have the sole purpose as sidelining her with a faux scandal; see Tulsi Gabbard Comes Out Full Throttle Against 'False and Slanderous Accusations' From Dems and Media — RedState.
To recap, the Wall Street Journal ran an "exclusive" on Monday that seemed to claim Gabbard had done something. However, a fair reading of the article doesn't make it very clear what she did or didn't do.
U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
Thirteen, that is 13, paragraphs into the article, we find this gem.
Gabbard answered written questions about the allegations from the inspector general’s office, a senior official at the spy agency said. That prompted the acting inspector general at the time, Tamara Johnson, to determine the allegations specifically about Gabbard weren’t credible [my italics—streiff], the official said. Johnson remains employed at the agency, which didn’t make her available for an interview.
As it turned out, there was no delay in producing the "security guidance" from DNI Gabbard on how to handle the report. The whistleblower's complaint is with the Congressional Intelligence Committees for review, and Gabbard produced the receipts.
#4
This is a deployment exercise for the mobile team set to monitor the midterms and possibly beyond. What did we miss? What do we NOT want to miss in the future? No algebraic notation needed. President Trump is just laying the groundwork and order of battle. His phone call was NOT meant for the team, it was meant for all the future election cheaters watching the team.
#5
No love lost between Orange Man and WSJ. A few years back I tried a subscription to WSJ hoping to read some good quality, objective journalism. Silly me. Good quality, objective journalism is not to be found in the Wall Street Journal.
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02/04/2026 12:15 Comments ||
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^ Even the semi-conservative Opinion section has been infiltrated
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/04/2026 13:38 Comments ||
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Perfidious Albion doesn't waste too much time on the Orange Man either. They burned that bridge a while back with the 'River House' offset fella in Russia, Russia, Russia.
[CNBC] Warner's shitting bricks over this. What's he afraid of? Tell him "we don't comment or testify over ongoing investigations." Make the Cro-Magnon Geico Senator quiver
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., called on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to testify in person before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Warner raised concerns about Gabbard’s appearance at an FBI raid on a Georgia election office
…Fulton County…
and her facilitation of a phone call between those FBI agents and President Donald Trump.
The senator also sounded alarms about Trump’s recent suggestion that Republicans should "take over" and "nationalize" elections.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Director Gabbard: “Contrary to the blatantly false and slanderous accusations being made against me by Members of Congress and their friends in the propaganda media, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has and will continue to take action under my statutory authorities to secure our nation and ensure the integrity of our elections. My response to Congress:”
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#1
I don’t think Sen Warner is making a very good decision there.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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The senator also sounded alarms about Trump’s recent suggestion that Republicans should "take over" and "nationalize" elections.
This bullet is Sen. Warner's very real concern. The terms "take over" and "nationalize" could produce a great many logistical and procedural adjustments and actions, none of which the dems would welcome.
Somewhere there is a smiling salvage yard owner anxiously awaiting a large shipment of voting machines.
#3
Quick search on Warner, he comes off as a spaz; seems like a bot running his FB page and puts front and center those obnoxious I'm In My Car Having a Moment streams.
If his PR director fits the mold, then yes a quick insta-reaction is par, and telling.
#4
I certainly couldn't recommend it for content, but watch the odd statement by Warner. Not just the recent but over the course of his, uh, 'career'. Ideally with the sound off and just watch his body language and facial expressions. Are they those of a man you would trust under any circumstance?
He perennially looks frightened and guilty as if he knows what he's saying is utter crap but somebody nervous and impatient has his balls in a vice grip.
"This morning’s filing could not have come fast enough; justice delayed is justice denied," said Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington, whose district includes the election's headquarters. "The people of Fulton County deserve justice now, and that’s why I pushed so hard to get this motion filed as soon as possible."
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