At a lengthy House Committee on Ways & Means hearing Tuesday, hospice and healthcare stakeholders testified about the harm caused by pervasive hospice and home health fraud in California and other states and laid out concrete ways to address the crisis. “Fraud exposes beneficiaries to exploitation and denies them access to appropriate care and undermines trust in the Medicare program,” Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, one of five witnesses, told the committee.
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