A California couple is accused of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme that placed an elderly man into hospice care even though he was not terminally ill and was instead suffering from constipation, according to federal authorities.
Prosecutors allege that Gladwin Gill, 66, and Amelou Gill, 70, owners of a Southern California hospice company, falsely certified patients as terminally ill to collect lucrative Medicare reimbursements. Among those patients was a 95-year-old man identified in court documents as “V.J.,” whose case has become a central example of the alleged fraud.
