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Federal authorities are announcing a huge wave of arrests related to Medicare and hospice fraud in Los Angeles. Members of the DOJ, FBI and CMS announced the arrests this week. Authorities say the suspects defrauded the American people by billing taxpayers for end-of-life services that were either unnecessary or never actually provided. The investigation ramped up in January, when Doctor Mehmet Oz, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, toured a neighborhood in Van Nuys. He says 42 different hospice licenses were registered within just four blocks. Gladwin and Amelou Gill, a doctor and a psychologist from San Dimas, were among several people arrested this morning. They are accused of fraudulently billing Medicare for nearly seven-and-a-half-million dollars while running their hospice service, which had a reported survival rate of more than 97% in five years.
