Gov. Newsom Knew About the Hospice Fraud in 2022

According to a document detailing the California hospice licensure and oversight, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, has known for four years about the hospice fraudsters who have been stealing taxpayer dollars. According to a document dated March 2022, Newsom was warned by a fraud auditor about the rapid increase in the number of hospice agencies, with no clear correlation to increased need, alongside other factors. One of these factors included abnormally high rates of still-living patients discharged from hospice care. According to the post, Governor Newsom was also sent a map showing the locations of hospice agencies clustered in a single area of Los Angeles County. In a hearing with RFK Jr. just this week, it was said, “Hospices in Los Angeles. We’ve shut 500 of them; we haven’t g