8 California doctors and nurses arrested for posing patients as terminally ill to milk $4M from Medicare

A fewer crooked California wellness attraction workers person allegedly been milking Medicare retired of millions. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Central District of California, the schemes tied to these 8 individuals tried to siphon disconnected implicit $50 cardinal (1) from national wellness attraction programs.

Although determination are nuances to each case, astir followed a akin playbook: Get radical to unreal they were terminally sick successful hospice and measure the authorities for unnecessary aesculapian services.​

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Thanks to coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, each 8 of these defendants are successful custody and awaiting their trials.

​One of the largest azygous cases progressive a Covina mates — the "purported psychologist" Gladwin Gill and registered caregiver Amelou Gill — who operated the 626 Hospice Inc. successful Glendale.

Allegedly, the Gills sent Medicare $5.2 cardinal successful fraudulent claims for hospice services they ne'er needed oregon provided. In total, the U.S. Attorney's Office claims the Gills received $4 million, which they utilized for assorted idiosyncratic expenses ranging from good eating to car payments.

In the aftermath of these allegations, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who present leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is readying a thorough reappraisal of hospice attraction passim the Golden State.​

As ABC-7 Los Angeles (2) reported, Dr. Oz said, "We're going to reappraisal each azygous hospice successful California to marque definite that they're each appropriate, and we anticipation to bash that expeditiously. We'll bash it this year."

When discussing these Southern California cases, the FBI's Akil Davis made it wide they're portion of a worrying inclination alternatively than isolated incidents. In a connection (3), Davis claimed: "The United States loses hundreds of billions of dollars annually to healthcare fraud astatine the disbursal of each American taxpayers, whose benefits alteration arsenic premiums, co-payments, and taxes grow."

Recent findings from a CBS News probe (4) amusement that these wellness attraction fraud cases are peculiarly communal successful California, wherever LA County present has 1,800 licensed hospices (about six times the nationalist mean considering its elder population). This study showed that 42% of hospice attraction centers successful LA County continued to run adjacent with wide informing signs of fraud.