Doctor Made MILLIONS By Intentionally Diagnosing Healthy People With Cancer

A cancer doctor from Detroit has pleaded guilty to prescribing people unnecessary cancer treatments and then charging insurers for millions of dollars. He later admitted that his patients often didnt need chemotherapy but he sent them anyways just so you can extract more money in return.

Dr Farid Fata pleaded guilty 16 charges that include money-laundering and conspiracy. US Attorney Barbara McQuade responded that she would not negotiate such a “shocking” case and will ask for a life sentence.

The court hearing was supposed to be an opportunity to debate about evidence, including an email that revealed his interest in a $3m villa in his native country of Lebanon.

“You’re pleading guilty freely and voluntarily?” US District Judge Paul Borman asked. “Yes,” he replied, dressed in a jail uniform.

The unfortunate patients and relatives of former patients of Dr Farid Fata were shocked when charges were filed protesting against Fata on the courthouse sidewalk and still periodically meet to swap stories.

His Michigan Hematology Oncology cancer clinic had a total of seven offices where he performed cancer tests. The government tells Dr Fata filed over $225m in claims to Medicare over the period of six years, half of which were for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments. Medicare paid him more than $91m, and private insurers were also billed. Will

Jeff Berzs’ father Milton Berz, died a year after being diagnosed with leukemia, and he remembers how hi thes 81-year-old father was being treated while he was waiting in Dr Feta’s parking garage.

“Dr Fata told my dad it would make it easier. His kidneys eventually failed,” Berz told the court. “Did the drugs kill him or the cancer? I don’t have any definitive answers, but I do have my suspicions. Every time I turn around, I’m running into somebody who knows somebody who was treated by Dr Fata. This is so widespread.”

 

Source:

The Guardian