Sixteen people, including two doctors, have been charged with felonies after the state attorney general’ s office said it uncovered a scheme in which people who were not terminally ill were enrolled in expensive hospice care without their knowledge by two Inland Empire treatment facilities that fraudulently billed Medicare for millions of dollars.
Allegations including bogus terminal illness diagnoses and illegal kickbacks for patient referrals mirror widespread fraud detailed in a 2020 Times investigation.