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Cancer Doctor Admits Making False Diagnosis to Send Patients to Chemotherapy

Posted on November 7, 2014

FBI LogoFBI STORY CRIME:   (Nov. 6, 2014)   “Imagine receiving a diagnosis of cancer and then having to go through chemotherapy or other intensive treatments. Then imagine finding out that you never had cancer in the first place and that your doctor—whom you trusted implicitly—merely used you in his scheme to fraudulently bill the federal Medicare program and private insurance companies for hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to the FBI.

“That’s exactly what happened to patients of Dr. Farid Fata, a Detroit-area hematologist and oncologist. And it was not only cancer diagnoses. Some patients were told, wrongly, that they had other conditions which required expensive intravenous therapies, medications, and diagnostic tests…all of which jeopardized their health and well-being,”  FBI stated.

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