Trump administration pauses Medicare enrollments for hospice providers amid fraud investigations
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will be enacting a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollments by hospice and home health agencies to target fraud.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, during the moratorium, “CMS will intensify targeted investigations, deploy advanced data analytics, and accelerate the removal of hospice and HHA providers from the Medicare program that are suspected of committing fraud.”
The announcement comes shortly before Vice President JD Vance, who heads up the White House’s anti-fraud task force, speaks in Bangor, Maine about the administration’s efforts to combat fraud.
