Dr. Mehmet Oz
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Yeah.
I'm in the hospice business.
We're all in the hospice business.
Absolutely.
So then the guy says, okay, well, he realized he's got to get ahead of these guys.
So he goes to a major hospital in LA and a doctor at the hospital, very prominent hospital that everyone's heard of, says, hey, listen, if you gave me $1,000 a month, I'll send hospice patients to you, which is how it's done in LA, by the way.
You get paid, you send patients over.
So the guy says, okay, what about the actual inpatients?
Like the people hospitalized, can I get them?
And the doctor says, I can't do that.
Because it turns out there are some members of the board that own hospice, and they like the patients to go to their centers.
You see that the corruption starts in organized crime, but if you tolerate it, it poisons the whole system.
And that's the bigger reason we've got a problem.
So what are we doing?
We have a fraud war room.
I'm going to put a moratorium on some of these services.
We're not going to let new people sign up.
We're going to actively and aggressively stop paying Medicaid if we can prove that states are not obliging their fiduciary responsibility to the American people.
Because states administer Medicaid, I pay the bills at CMS.
So we're going to stop paying on behalf of the taxpayer if we don't think you're taking care of the money.