How hospice fraud has flourished in California

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California has emerged as an epicenter of healthcare fraud, specifically multimillion-dollar hospice scams operating out of Los Angeles, a scandal allegedly on par with the Somali-run schemes that bilked public assistance programs in Minnesota by the billions.