WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The House Ways & Means Committee Chairman issued the following news release:
"How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California?"
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Medicare fraud is a massive problem that costs taxpayers $60 billion every year and denies Americans access to their Medicare beneficiaries. During a Ways and Means Committee hearing on fraud in the Medicare system, a California patient shared her harrowing story of needing care and being told she could not receive Medicare benefits because she was fraudulently enrolled in hospice. Unfortunately, this witness is not alone in experiencing the impacts of rampant Medicare fraud. The hearing examined the massive scope and scale of health care fraud that was allowed ...