Vance’s Anti-Fraud Taskforce Makes Major Move On Medicare Fraud

The Trump administration is temporarily pausing new home health and hospice providers from enrolling in Medicare, Reuters first reported Wednesday.

The move is part of Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force’s broader efforts to eliminate 🏥Healthcare ‌fraud across the U.S., according to Reuters. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a statement that the agency is continuing the administration’s “crackdown on fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare program by stopping improper billing and preventing bad actors from entering the system.”

“We’ve seen systemic and deeply troubling fraud in the hospice and home health space, with bad actors exploiting some of our most vulnerable Medicare patients and stealing money from the American taxpayer,” CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said in a statement. “Today we’re shutting the door on fraud—preventing new bad actors from entering Medicare while we aggressively identify, investigate, and remove those already exploiting them.”

During the six-month moratorium, CMS plans to “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,” according to the agency’s news release from Wednesday.

Vance claimed in a Tuesday statement