Medicare fraud and mistakes cost US taxpayers an estimated 60 billion dollars every year,

but that's just a number.

Sometimes that fraud is much more costly.

Imagine going through weeks of painful, exhausting, and expensive chemotherapy treatment,

only to find out later that all of it was unnecessary.

Just a scam.

You and your body have been used to steal Medicare payments.

Today we've dug into the archives to bring back a three-part series called Dr. Rotten.

It's a story so important we think it's worth sharing again.

Today in part one we'll meet Angela Swantech, an experienced oncology nurse who scores an interview at Dr. Farid Fata's very busy Cancer Treatment Center in Michigan.

As she tours the facility, often teeming with a dozen or so patients all receiving various chemotherapy treatments, she begins to notice that things just aren't right.

Many things just aren't right. Many things just aren't right.

Will Johnson is your host on this story.

Greed is at the heart of scams. It's the primary motivation. When it comes to health

insurance scams and Medicare fraud, the story is no different. In essence, when someone

like a doctor, a health care provider, anyone working in the medical

field makes a false, fraudulent, or fictitious claim to Medicare, that's a crime and considered

Medicare fraud.

And Medicare fraud in the United States is a multi-billion dollar problem.

These people are getting rich by filing claims for services that were never rendered,

equipment, never delivered, or used, and in some cases for medication that was never needed.

But over the next three weeks we're going to tell you a story about a man who was driven by something more than greed.

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