Investigative journalism from CBS
CBS News has run a story that should be unexceptional, but is in fact very rare. It was a story about widespread fraud of taxpayer subsidies. Such stories previously have only been done by bloggers and citizen journalists, with most mainstream media rushing to put them into “context”. Here you have CBS lead the way. Here is what they found in California.
- Fraudulent enrolment of health people in hospices
- A 1500% in hospice companies in LA since 2010
- LA County has six times more hospices per capital than the national average
- 700 of the 1800 LA hospices have red flags indicating possible fraud
- 500 hospices are all located within 3 miles of each other – the most dense concentration in the US
- One street alone has 137 hospices on it!
- 89 hospices are registered to a single building!
May we see more of this type of journalism.