But my office has conducted nearly 300 hospice fraud investigations and recovered $5.1 billion. And I just arrested 21 suspects. In 2022, when the California state auditor told me that weak oversight had created opportunities for large-scale fraud and abuse in the hospice industry; But in Los Angeles alone if you have over 1800 hospices and at least 700 of them are fraudulent. What does that say? I responded to the problem by halting the issuance of new hospice licenses starting Jan. 1, 2022.
