A former Kenosha News reporter has a supporting role-of-sorts in an upcoming cable television documentary on fraud in the hospice industry in the Chicago area.
Although he no longer works for the Kenosha News, Daniel Gaitan still writes for “Life Matters Media,” an online news service that focuses on end-of-life matters.
In that role, Gaitan spoke a few years ago to a man by the name of Seth Gillman, the co-owner of Passages Hospice. At the time, Gillman was receiving accolades for industry innovations. "I asked him what got him involved in hospice--he was relatively young," Gaitan said recently on WGTD. "He said my grandmother had a poor experience in hospice and (he) got into this industry to provide everybody the care (his) grandmother didn't get-- which was interesting because he did the exact opposite in real life."
Gilman, as it turned out, was actually in the process of stealing millions from Medicare and Medicaid by telling patients they were dying when they weren’t, and providing a much more expensive level of care than what was warranted. The government, of course, got billed the difference.
Gillman is currently serving a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
Gaitan talks about the case in an upcoming episode of “American Greed,” a documentary series that runs on C-N-B-C. The hospice episode is expected to air early next month.
Gaitan talks at length about the case and other matters on WGTD’s “Morning Show.” The full program is available here.
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