"A new front in the battle between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Trump administration has opened over a video in which Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz visits Los Angeles and alleges members of its Armenian community orchestrated large-scale health care fraud. The dayslong public scuffle on social media escalated on Thursday evening, when Newsom announced his office was filing a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services accusing Oz of discrimination."
"The video posted on social media earlier this week shows the CMS administrator visiting the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles and pointing to a four-block radius that he says is home to 42 hospices, suggesting potential fraud. He references a business that he says was part of a $16 million fraud scheme. Then, while standing in front of a building that includes an Armenian bakery, he alleges that roughly $3.5 billion in hospice and home care fraud has taken place in Los Angeles"
Gov. Gavin Newsom's office filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alleging CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz made baseless, racially charged claims linking Los Angeles's Armenian community to large-scale hospice and home care fraud. A social media video shows Oz pointing to a Van Nuys four-block radius he said houses 42 hospices, referencing a business tied to a $16 million fraud scheme and alleging roughly $3.5 billion in regional fraud. The complaint says the allegations chilled community participation in care programs and harmed local businesses such as an Armenian bakery. Oz and CMS have not publicly confirmed the fraud allegations.
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