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Doctor
Farid Fata, 49, a Detroit area cancer doctor has plead guilty on 13 counts of
health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks, and
two counts
of money laundering.
Fata
has been treating patients with chemo for years now even though they didn’t
need the treatments. He intentionally misdiagnosed healthy people. Tuesday morning Fata was charged with running a
$35-million Medicare fraud scheme that involved billing the government for
unnecessary oncology and hematology treatments
This
sicko is currently being held on a $9 million dollar bond after whistle blower Angela
Swantek contacted state authorities. Swantek was a chemotherapy nurse that
worked for Fata. And reported the incident back in 2010
According to the government, Fata had a patient load of 1,200
people and received $62 million from Medicare. It has been recorded that Fata
billed Medicare for more than $150 million.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, Americans aren’t
even safe in their own country.
Not only do we constantly hear about judges selling prison
beds, now we have to worry about picking the right doctor who won’t sell us out
to big business.
Unfortunately since Fata plead guilty, none of the questions
why he did what he did and for so long was answered. Families might never
know if their mother, brother, father, or child ever actually died from cancer
or died from Fata’s hands.
A few bad apples mess it up for the rest of us, doctors smh.
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