For one thing, the dollar amount of alleged fraud — $35 million — is higher than most for individual providers charged by the government. The potential physical harm to patients described by prosecutors also is far more substantial. In a criminal complaint filed in a federal district court in Detroit, prosecutors said that the 48-year-old Dr. Fata ordered toxic chemotherapy for patients who did not have cancer or whose cancer was in remission. Doing this "is simply poisoning the patient," prosecutors said in a later court filing." (go to article"
Saturday, August 10, 2013
News from Medscape!
*"Hematologist-oncologist Farid Fata, MD, in suburban Detroit,
Michigan, was arrested August 6 and charged with Medicare fraud in a
federal case that stands out from dozens of others recently brought
against healthcare providers.
For one thing, the dollar amount of alleged fraud — $35 million — is higher than most for individual providers charged by the government. The potential physical harm to patients described by prosecutors also is far more substantial. In a criminal complaint filed in a federal district court in Detroit, prosecutors said that the 48-year-old Dr. Fata ordered toxic chemotherapy for patients who did not have cancer or whose cancer was in remission. Doing this "is simply poisoning the patient," prosecutors said in a later court filing." (go to article"
For one thing, the dollar amount of alleged fraud — $35 million — is higher than most for individual providers charged by the government. The potential physical harm to patients described by prosecutors also is far more substantial. In a criminal complaint filed in a federal district court in Detroit, prosecutors said that the 48-year-old Dr. Fata ordered toxic chemotherapy for patients who did not have cancer or whose cancer was in remission. Doing this "is simply poisoning the patient," prosecutors said in a later court filing." (go to article"
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