cracking down on fraud and waste in Medicare’s hospice networks
Crack down on fraud and waste in Medicare hospice networks.
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Evidence
Arizona families deserve a health care system that works for everyone--regardless of one’s income or zip code. That starts with reducing prescription drug costs for seniors, capping insulin at just $35 a month, cracking down on fraud and waste in Medicare’s hospice networks, expanding access to quality healthcare services in the Valley, and protecting insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Whistleblowers identify waste, fraud, abuse, and other misconduct. They play a vital role in helping Congress to conduct its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities.
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to deactivate the standard unique health identifiers of health care providers that are excluded from federal health care programs because of fraud, waste, or abuse.
Assessments
Stanton carried the hospice fraud-and-waste pledge into official House messaging and took concrete anti-fraud oversight actions, including a whistleblower intake and sponsoring the 2025 Medicare Fraud Detection and Deterrence Act. However, the cited bill was broader Medicare fraud legislation rather than hospice-network-specific, and the evidence does not show that a hospice fraud crackdown was enacted or completed. Because he made serious related legislative and oversight efforts but the promised outcome is not shown as delivered, this merits partial credit rather than full delivery.