If CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is going to succeed in turning the car around with decades of liberal bias and oversee an organization that does operate where over two-thirds of Americans operate, she will need more stories like this one from Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Evening News uncovering hospice fraud inside far-left California. CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King had a gripping introduction: “For people reaching the end of their life due to illness, hospice care helps them get through their final days. Medicare often pays for almost all of it, making it very ripe for fraud.” I know this made the rounds yesterday, but it’s worth underlining – this kind of story on ‘CBS Mornings’ about rampant hospice fraud in (deep blue) California is exactly the kind of story that will make a @BariWeiss-led network a success pic.twitter.com/q7fQ9g42CV — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 11, 2026 She then dropped the stunning statistic that “suspected Medicare hospice fraud totaled almost — listen to this number — $200 million in 2023” and, in California, “many hospices with red flags still remain in business” despite having “vowed to stamp out fraud” “four years ago.” Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi opened with one such fraud victim, a 69-year-old doctor that, “according to Medicare records” had been “dying in hospice care two years ago” when she tapped her Medicare benefits for “physical therapy” after a “pickleball injury.” This resulted in Yamaguchi visiting a ghost hospice office (click “expand”):  YAMAGUCHI: Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Lynn Ayani (sp?) was, according to Medicare records, dying in hospice care two years ago, something she discovered when she sought physical therapy for pickleball injury. DR. LYNN AYANI: I was shocked. They said, “You’re in hospice.” And I said, “What? What are you talking about? Do I look like a mess.” So she was “No, no!” YAMAGUCHI: Ayani’s Medicare number had been stolen and used by a company to fraudulently enroll her in hospice care, which she obviously didn’t need. AYANI: Just to think you’re literally without coverage because of some ridiculous fraudulent thing. YAMAGUCHI [KNOCKING ON OFFICE DOOR]: My name is Adam Yamaguchi. I’m with CBS News. [VOICE-OVER] A CBS News investigation found an industry ripe for fraud, especially in California. Companies accused of over billing, real patients denied care, and it is costing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. The hospice Ayani was fraudulently enrolled in is called Fortuna. When we called, no one answered. AUTOMATED RESPONSE: Does not accept any message at this time. Yamaguchi explained California has claimed to have “increased monitoring of the hospice industry four years ago, identifying the potential hallmarks of fraud,” but a CBS News investigation “analyzed every hospice licensed in L.A. County, more than 1,700 and checked for the same warning signs the state used, like multiple hospices packed into one building or caregivers whose patients supposedly at death’s door are discharged alive.” Along with hundreds of millions wasted a year nationwide, Yamaguchi said CBS News found “more than 700 agencies with three or more signs of potential fraud” and “Sheila Clark, a hospice patient advocate” told them “an area of Los Angeles that’s home to nearly 500 hospice company offices in just a three-mile stretch.” Visiting one such ghost office, he added “it’s real patients in desperate need who pay the price.” He took this insanity to California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and asked him why, despite the state’s claims to be clamping down on fraud, “[a fraudulent company] can go for a full year and still not have their license revoked.” “Is that a systemic failure,” he wondered. Bonta offered boilerplate assurances that “[w]e will continue until hospice fraud...is rooted out” by remaining “responsive to the red flags and...do something.” Yamaguchi saved a critical component for the end about why the piece focused on a state’s response for fraud in a federal program: Though Medicare is federally administered, the state licenses hospices to be able to operate. Now, California extended a moratorium on new hospice licenses through next year. Officials tell us they’re still working on emergency regulations to hold those hospices accountable. Those regulations were supposed to be added at the beginning of this year[.] An abridged version aired on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News with this set-up from anchor Tony Dokoupil: “Turning now to a CBS News investigation about Medicare fraud involving both identity theft and fake hospice care. It’s an area long rife with fraud, costing taxpayers millions, and it may be getting worse. CBS News correspondent Adam Yamaguchi has details.” At the end, Yamaguchi added spin from Bonta that “[t]he attorney general’s office says it’s charged more than 100 defendants.” To see the relevant CBS transcripts from March 11, click here (for CBS Mornings) and here (for the CBS Evening News).