Vance-led task force cuts off $1.4B from home health, hospice providers suspected of fraud

By Fox News · Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force has withheld $1.4 billion in federal funding from home health and hospice providers nationwide, following a wave of suspensions enacted by an anti-fraud task force targeting operations in California, Minnesota and several other states. Approximately 90% of the suspended providers have not reached out to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency tasked with combating fraud, waste and abuse, since payments have been suspended. Trump administration officials told Fox News Digital that they believe a lack of communication between alleged fraudulent providers and CMS indicates that the providers were not legitimate enterprises. The suspended group includes long-term providers who have been pocketing federal funds for years while failing to communicate with CMS, a senior Trump administration source told Fox News Digital. "The vice president’s task force continues to stop the flow of taxpayer funds before they fall into the hands of fraudsters and deliver savings to the American people," a spokesperson for Vice President JD Vance told Fox News Digital. "This is great momentum in the fight for the President’s War on Fraud." LOS ANGELES COUNTY FACES SCRUTINY AFTER ALLEGED WIDESPREAD HOSPICE FRAUD EXPOSED President Donald Trump has made the eradication of systemic fraud a cornerstone of his administration’s domestic policy. On Monday, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz blasted California officials over the state's hospice crisis, charging that the fraud is "stealing your lives" and pointing to a sophisticated web of international graft. "We’ve got Russian government involvement , we believe, in Los Angeles. We’ve got the Chinese government involved in a big fraud ring in New York," Oz told guest host Kayleigh McEnany on "Jesse Watters Primetime." "And, of course, the Cuban connection... pointed out to me by former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. We’ve got twice as many durable medical equipment supp…