The Trump Administration is finally shining a very bright light on something that has smelled bad for years, massive medical fraud pouring out of California, and especially Los Angeles County. And once you see the numbers, it is hard to believe this was allowed to continue for as long as it did.
At the center of the crackdown is Mehmet Oz, now serving as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who is working directly with the Trump Administration to untangle what looks like an industrial scale fraud operation hiding behind the word “hospice.” According to Fox News, one Los Angeles doctor alone billed the federal government roughly $120 million in a single year, claiming to oversee nearly 1,900 patients. One doctor. One year. If that does not immediately trigger alarms, nothing will.
It gets worse. A staggering 18 percent of the entire nation’s home health care billing comes out of Los Angeles County. Nearly one fifth of all such claims in the United States are tied to a single county. Florida and New York, states that Democrats constantly accuse of corruption, do not even come close. Los Angeles reportedly has almost 2,000 registered hospice agencies, more than 36 states combined and roughly thirty times more than Florida and New York put together.
The fraud being exposed in California is INSANE
– 18% of THE WHOLE COUNTRY’S home health care billing is coming out of Los Angeles County
– One doctor billed the government $120 million in a single year claiming to oversee 1,900 patients
– With almost 2,000 hospice agencies, Los… pic.twitter.com/0mTPG1ENL2— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 1, 2026
Dr. Oz laid out just how absurd the system has become. Opening a hospice in Los Angeles is basically a paperwork exercise. You do not need to live there. You do not need a real facility. You barely need anything resembling oversight. As Oz put it, he could fill out the forms from Kazakhstan and have a hospice license waiting for him. Some of these “providers” are allegedly operating out of strip malls, unmarked buildings, vacant lots, and even a wrecking yard. That is not compassionate care. That is a scam.
This is what happens when ideology replaces enforcement. California’s political leadership has spent years expanding government programs while gutting accountability. The result is predictable. Fraudsters follow the money. Los Angeles County has become a magnet for abuse because the system practically invites it.
President Trump’s administration is now doing what should have been done long ago, asking basic questions. How can one county generate nearly a fifth of national billing? How can a single doctor claim thousands of patients? How can thousands of hospice agencies exist with so little scrutiny? These are not partisan questions. They are common sense ones.
The investigation signals a broader shift. Under President Trump, federal agencies are no longer pretending that fraud is an unfortunate side effect of generosity. It is a crime, and it is one that robs taxpayers and exploits vulnerable patients.
California politicians will undoubtedly scream about “attacks” and “cuts,” but this is neither. It is accountability. And if Los Angeles is ground zero for this kind of abuse, then that is exactly where the investigation should start.
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