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仅洛杉矶一地，该专项工作组就已暂停数百家临终关怀机构的资质，涉案诈骗金额估计超过6亿美元
作者：普雷斯顿·米泽尔、路易斯·卡西阿诺 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年5月13日上午9:30 EDT
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副总统J·D·万斯在《威尔·凯恩秀》节目中表示，特朗普政府正考虑剥夺面临欺诈指控的嫌疑人的公民身份，并将明尼苏达州称为这场反欺诈行动的“冰山一角”。
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独家报道： 副总统J·D·万斯领导的反欺诈专项工作组已暂停全美家庭护理和临终关怀机构共计14亿美元的联邦拨款。此前，该专项工作组已在加利福尼亚州、明尼苏达州及其他多个州启动了针对违规运营机构的暂停资质程序。
约90%被暂停资质的机构在拨款被冻结后，未与负责打击欺诈、浪费和滥用行为的医疗保险与医疗补助服务中心（CMS）取得联系。
特朗普政府官员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他们认为，涉嫌欺诈的机构与CMS之间缺乏沟通，这表明这些机构并非合法经营实体。
一名特朗普政府高级消息人士向福克斯新闻数字频道透露，此次被暂停资质的机构中，有一些长期运营的机构多年来一直在挪用联邦资金，却从未与CMS进行过沟通。
“副总统领导的专项工作组将继续阻止纳税人资金落入欺诈者手中，为美国民众节省开支，”J·D·万斯的发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“这是总统打击欺诈战争行动中的重大进展。”
洛杉矶县因大规模临终关怀欺诈曝光遭审查
副总统J·D·万斯于3月27日主持了“消除欺诈专项工作组”的首次会议。仅洛杉矶一地，该专项工作组就已暂停数百家涉嫌欺诈的临终关怀机构的资质。（肖恩·休/法新社/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
总统唐纳德·特朗普将系统性欺诈整治作为其政府国内政策的核心支柱。周一，CMS署长穆罕默德·奥兹博士就加州临终关怀行业危机抨击该州官员，称这种欺诈行为“正在窃取民众的生命”，并直指一张复杂的国际贪腐网络。
“我们认为，俄罗斯政府参与了洛杉矶的相关案件。纽约有一个大型欺诈团伙涉及中国政府，”奥兹在《杰西·沃特特斯黄金时段》节目中做客主持人凯莉·麦克纳尼时表示，“当然，还有古巴方面的关联……前迈阿密市长弗朗西斯·苏亚雷斯向我指出了这一点。我们拥有的耐用医疗设备供应商——销售轮椅和拐杖的——是南佛罗里达州麦当劳门店数量的两倍。每当我们对他们展开调查，老板们往往就带着钱逃回古巴了。”
上个月，福克斯新闻数字频道曝光，仅洛杉矶一地就有447家临终关怀机构和23家家庭护理机构因涉嫌欺诈被暂停资质，涉案诈骗总额估计超过6亿美元。
几天之后，美国小企业管理局（SBA）将56.2万笔涉嫌欺诈的贷款——总额超过222亿美元——移交美国财政部进行追讨。这些贷款大多来自薪资保护计划（PPP）和新冠疫情经济伤害灾难贷款（EIDL）项目。
明尼苏达州“喂养我们的未来”欺诈案核心要点：特朗普最新打击行动的焦点
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奥兹博士表示，涉嫌欺诈者“正在从我们最脆弱的群体手中窃取财物”
美国小企业管理局指出，这些贷款档案在拜登政府期间就已被标记为涉嫌欺诈，但从未被移交财政部进行追讨。
“专项工作组已经明确表明，拜登政府向欺诈者直接支付现金的政策已经结束，”一名白宫高级官员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
今年4月，加州临终关怀倡导组织负责人警告国会议员，该州的行业欺诈现象正愈演愈烈。加州临终关怀与姑息护理协会（CHAPCA）主席兼首席执行官希拉·克拉克质疑，这些“幽灵”机构是如何在如此长的时间里躲过监管的。
“你会惊讶于加州有多少临终关怀机构……你走到门口，里面空无一人，还能看到堆了五个月的邮件，”克拉克在4月22日的听证会上对众议院筹款委员会表示，“但他们却通过了调查。这怎么可能？”
“怎么能把临终关怀机构开在卷饼店里？怎么能开在零售商店里？”她打趣道，“这些机构本应通过执照发放、认证和资质审核的层层把关。”
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企业高管在国会作证：“怎么能把临终关怀机构开在卷饼店里？”
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加州总检察长罗布·邦塔近日宣布逮捕五名涉嫌参与数百万美元临终关怀诈骗案的人员，该团伙通过向州医疗补助计划Medi-Cal进行虚假账单申报，非法获利达2.67亿美元。
去年，明尼苏达州“喂养我们的未来”项目——一场据称骗取政府数亿美元资金的“虚假餐食”诈骗活动——相关人员被捕后，特朗普政府加大了对纳税人资金滥用行为的打击力度。
普雷斯顿·米泽尔是福克斯新闻数字频道记者，负责突发新闻报道。
Vance-led task force cuts off $1.4B from home health, hospice providers suspected of fraud
2026-05-13 09:30:34 EDT / Fox News
The task force has suspended hundreds of hospices in Los Angeles alone, with estimated theft exceeding $600M
By Preston Mizell, Louis Casiano Fox News
Published May 13, 2026 9:30am EDT
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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
Vice President JD Vance hosted the first meeting of The Task Force to Eliminate Fraud on March 27. The task force has suspended hundreds of hospices suspected of fraud in Los Angeles alone.(Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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 suppliers — selling wheelchairs and canes — as there are McDonald’s in South Florida. The owners often flee back to Cuba with the money the moment we move in on them.”
Last month, Fox News Digital uncovered the suspension of 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies suspected of fraud in Los Angeles alone, with the total theft estimated at more than $600 million.
Days later, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) referred 562,000 suspected fraudulent loans — totaling over $22.2 billion — to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for collection. These loans largely originated from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT MINNESOTA’S ‘FEEDING OUR FUTURE’ FRAUD AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP’S LATEST CRACKDOWN
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Alleged fraudsters are ‘stealing from our most vulnerable,’ Dr. Oz says
The SBA noted these files were flagged for suspected fraud during the Biden administration but were never sent to the Treasury Department for recovery.
“The task force has made clear that the Biden administration’s policy of giving direct cash payments to fraudsters is over,” a senior White House official told Fox News Digital.
In April, the head of a California hospice advocacy group warned congressional lawmakers that industry fraud is flourishing across the state. Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA), questioned how these “ghost” providers managed to evade regulators for so long.
“You’d be amazed at how many hospices… you can walk up to the door in California and there is nobody there. You can see five months’ worth of mail stacked up,” Clark told the House Ways and Means Committee during an April 22 hearing. “And yet, they passed a survey. How did that happen?”
“How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand? How do you put a hospice in a retail store?” she quipped. “That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification and accreditation.”
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently announced the arrest of five individuals linked to an alleged multimillion-dollar hospice scheme that reportedly raked in $267 million through fraudulent billing to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.
The Trump administration has intensified its focus on the abuse of taxpayer funds following last year’s arrests connected to the “Feeding Our Future” scheme in Minnesota — a massive “sham meal” operation that allegedly defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Preston Mizell is a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news.