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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...emo-healthy-patients-faces-sentencing-n385161
Have you been following this story? When the WSJ got access to how much reimbursement individual physicians got, Farid Fata was red-flagged. He owned an oncology clinic in suburban Detroit called Michigan Hematology Oncology and worked predominantly out of a hospital named Crittenton Hospital. A doctor employed by Fata blew the whistle that he was treating patients who didn't have a cancer diagnosis. His wife was the CFO and she has since fled to Lebanon with her children and tens of millions of dollars.
If you read one of the articles you'll see how egregious he was. But what I find hard to believe is how could he have gotten away with it all. Didn't these patient's have primary care doctors? Didn't anyone ever want to see a pathology report? Didn't anyone ever order a biopsy of anything? You have to wonder if some other radiologists, pathologists, pulmonoligists, radiation oncologists or others in the community were in on it.
More firepower for those who want to end fee for service medicine.
Here is the lovely couple.
Have you been following this story? When the WSJ got access to how much reimbursement individual physicians got, Farid Fata was red-flagged. He owned an oncology clinic in suburban Detroit called Michigan Hematology Oncology and worked predominantly out of a hospital named Crittenton Hospital. A doctor employed by Fata blew the whistle that he was treating patients who didn't have a cancer diagnosis. His wife was the CFO and she has since fled to Lebanon with her children and tens of millions of dollars.
If you read one of the articles you'll see how egregious he was. But what I find hard to believe is how could he have gotten away with it all. Didn't these patient's have primary care doctors? Didn't anyone ever want to see a pathology report? Didn't anyone ever order a biopsy of anything? You have to wonder if some other radiologists, pathologists, pulmonoligists, radiation oncologists or others in the community were in on it.
More firepower for those who want to end fee for service medicine.
Here is the lovely couple.
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