Archive Episode: Dr. Rotten: Can Medicare Fraud Give You Cancer? Part 2
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this 2019 episode, when oncologist Soe Maunglay moves to Michigan, he’s excited to join Farid Fata’s practice. But Fata’s controlling and odd ways make him question his decision to take the job. When Maunglay looks into a patient’s records, he’s shocked at what he finds: Fata is giving chemotherapy and other treatments to patients who don’t need it, some of whom don’t have cancer at all. His motive? Stealing money from Medicare.
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| 0:00.0 | When Dr. Soe. So Mangley takes a job in the state of Michigan's largest private cancer practice, |
| 0:06.0 | he plans to start a new life near Detroit. His wife had just taken a residency in radiology nearby. |
| 0:12.0 | Mongley was going to work for... taken a residency in radiology nearby. |
| 0:13.0 | Manglay was going to work for Dr. Farid Fata, a bit of a local legend in oncology circles. |
| 0:19.0 | Instead, Manglay is about to discover a truth so awful he can barely sleep. |
| 0:26.2 | Fara had been putting healthy patients through grueling chemotherapy treatments, sometimes |
| 0:31.7 | for months or even years, just to collect Medicare payments. |
| 0:37.1 | As the Detroit Times put it later, Fada had dispensed cruelty as casually as Tylenol. But after this nauseating discovery, |
| 0:46.0 | Mangley faces the professional challenge of a lifetime. How can this young cancer |
| 0:51.0 | doctor turn in his boss who will believe him he's about to risk |
| 0:55.6 | everything he's ever worked for to save patients at the clinic from suffering. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. This is part two of our story, Dr Rotten. If you didn't |
| 1:06.9 | listen to part one, please go back and do that. This story is so important we've gone |
| 1:11.7 | into the archives and we're giving it a second airing here in the perfect scam feed. |
| 1:16.4 | Will Johnson is your host. |
| 1:28.7 | This week we're bringing you the story of a massive Medicare fraud scam that touched the lives of so many people to help us wade through the universe of Medicare fraud and scams. |
| 1:33.7 | We brought in a renowned expert this week. |
| 1:36.0 | Peggy Spassado is joining us. |
| 1:37.6 | She was with the Department of Justice for many years and worked on the Medicare |
| 1:42.4 | strike team. |
| 1:43.3 | Peggy can tell us more about it. |
| 1:45.1 | Peggy, I have a quote that says |
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