Mar 17, 2026 · 1.4M views · 📍 Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA · San Diego, CA · Los Angeles, CA
Nick Shirley travels through Southern California — home daycares in the San Diego area and clusters of hospice/home-health offices in Van Nuys, Los Angeles — alleging widespread fraud in state-subsidized child care and in Medicare/Medi-Cal hospice billing. Citing state inspection records and public CMS billing data, he visits daycares with enrolled-but-absent children and hospice offices that billed millions despite appearing empty, confronting operators who mostly decline to answer while noting the luxury cars parked outside. He also interviews a medical-industry professional who describes how hospices obtain Medicare beneficiary numbers to bill for services without patients' knowledge.
Programs involved: Medi-Cal, Medicare, Medicaid, CalWORKs
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Proposed Medi-Cal budget for 2026, cited as evidence of runaway program growth.
“to a proposed $222 billion in 2026”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
California's Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) budget in 2022, cited as the baseline before it more than doubled.
“more than doubled since 2022 from $108 billion”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
California allocates $6 billion to child care and daycare facilities; over 39,000 facilities in the state.
“California allocates $6 billion to child care and daycare facilities just like these”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Nick's own conservative extrapolation that upwards of $100 million in child care fraud is lost in California each year.
“upwards of a hundred million dollars in fraud lost each and every single year”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Healthy Life Adult Daycare billed the state of California $19.8 million over the past few years despite a dilapidated exterior (later restated as 'over $19 million' and once as '$9 million').
“This place over the past few years has buil $19.8 million alone”
Stated by Nick Shirley (on camera)
Gardens of Angels Hospice (also called Guardian of Angels later in the video) billed $4.8 million per public CMS data; the office could not be located at the Van Nuys plaza.
“They build $4.8 million per beneficiary”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration), citing public CMS data
Blossom Hospice, in the same Van Nuys location, received $3.4 million, at $6,000 per beneficiary and $927 per claim with only one billing code (one service).
“Blossom Hospice and they received $3.4 million with $6,000 per beneficiary”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration), citing public CMS data
All Day Hospice billed $3.1 million ($6,000 per beneficiary, 24 claims per patient, only two billing codes, over 500 patients), accumulated in 19 months after it began billing in April 2023.
“started billing in April 2023 and accumulated $3.1 million in 19 months”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration), citing public CMS data
Hospice of Caring Hearts billed $2.5 million but was nowhere to be found at its listed location.
“Hospice of Caring Hearts, which build $2.5 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration), citing public CMS data
Miracle Healing Hospice charged $1.3 million in 2023, about $32,935 per beneficiary across 38 beneficiaries; its building was found completely empty.
“In 2023, this place received $1.3 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley (on camera), citing public CMS data
Over 80 people connected to one dormant, unfurnished motel-room hospice office, each billed at about $30,000 per person, totaling millions of dollars.
“over 80 people connected to one of these dormant motel rooms”
Stated by Nick Shirley's on-camera colleague
All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: Exceptionally faithful extraction: all 21 claims trace to verbatim transcript text with correct amounts, timestamps (within one caption block), and reasonable speaker attributions, and the transcription_issues log honestly documents every ASR garble (e.g., the '$4.8 million per beneficiary' garble, the 'seven of the four entities' count, the $19.8M/$19M/$9M inconsistency) instead of papering over them. All 35 entities appear in the transcript; only two required real reconstruction ('Jamba Shukri' -> Jama Shukri, 'Boyagen' -> Boyajian), both plausible. The only mildly interpretive items are the Dr. Oz role description and attributing the 'over 80 people' quote to Nick's colleague (speaker markers make this the best but not certain reading); neither rises to a hallucination.
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.