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FIRST ON FOX: The anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies suspected of fraud in Los Angeles, with a total fraud estimate of more than $600 million.
The number of suspensions is a roughly 539% increase from the 70 reported by Fox News Digital at the beginning of April.
“Where there is fraud, the task force will find it,” a spokesperson for Vance told Fox News Digital. “We will not stop until every hard-earned taxpayer dollar goes toward the honest Americans who deserve them.”
A White House official doubled down on Vance and the task force’s commitment to rooting out fraud, and sent a stark warning to those suspected of fraudulent activity.
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Vice President JD Vance, alongside Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz, speaks about combatting fraud, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex Feb. 25, 2026. (Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)
“To all fraudsters: good luck trying to hide from the Vice President’s task force,” the White House official told Fox News Digital. “[The anti-fraud task force is] reviewing and pursuing every possible lead. These suspension numbers, and the dollar values saved, are only going to increase.”
The rising numbers add to the $259.5 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota that Vance and CMS administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced plans to block in February.
The move followed Gov. Tim Walz’s January decision not to seek a third term, made amid growing scrutiny of fraud in state programs.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FACES SCRUTINY AFTER ALLEGED WIDESPREAD HOSPICE FRAUD EXPOSED
The dramatic increase in suspected fraud and the more than half-billion in potential fraudulent activity is revealed by the anti-fraud task force as Democratic legislators in California are advancing a bill that would impose steep fines and…
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