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Dr. Oz pledges to tackle hospice fraud: "Do not steal from the American people"

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Dr. Mehmet Oz pledged this week to lead an effort that would decertify any hospice providers that are found to be defrauding taxpayers by stealing the identities of people not in hospice or by overbilling for those who are dying."If they steal the money, they'll steal your health, they'll steal your life, and we're seeing that over and over again, which is why we have to send a very loud message to fraudsters that we're not open for business for you," said Oz, who is the Trump administration's administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "Run away, defraud somebody else, go into some other illegitimate business, but do not steal from the American people," he said in an exclusive interview with CBS News.Hospice care offers patients who are terminally ill the ability to treat pain and die with dignity.…

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