The FBI has arrested Gladwin and Amelou Gill, the owners of 626 Hospice, which does business as St. Francis Palliative Care. The hospice's survival rate is more than 97% after five years.
A high survival rate at a hospice provider is one of a series of red flags for fraud because most people enter hospice care in the final stages of a terminal illness. The Gills are not alone. More than 700 of the nearly 1,800 hospice facilities in Los Angeles County have three or more flags indicating fraud.
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