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

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."

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.

"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."