Archive Episode: Dr. Rotten: Can Medicare Fraud Give You Cancer? Part 3

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the 2019 episode, the FBI is on to Farid Fata, an oncology doctor in Michigan who has been administering unnecessary cancer treatments in order to steal $34 million from Medicare. George, the practice’s office manager, has gathered enough evidence to bring the case to the authorities. It lands of the desk of Agent Drake during his first week with the FBI’s health care fraud team. Investigators are disgusted by what they find and work to bring Fata to justice.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the perfect scam.
0:03.0	For the past two weeks, we've been bringing you the story of Dr. Farid Fada.
0:08.0	His thriving oncology practice in Michigan holds a dark secret. He's been giving patients expensive chemotherapy
0:15.9	treatments they don't need, sometimes even perfectly healthy patients, just to
0:20.9	collect big Medicare checks.
0:23.0	The story is so important we've dug it out from the archives.
0:27.0	Where we left off, a young doctor, a new hire,
0:30.0	suspects something is wrong, very wrong, but doesn't know how to stop the crime, and he turns
0:36.3	to office manager George Karachi for help. Karachi is about to go to the FBI. Will they believe him? And now the conclusion of our
0:46.3	three-part series, Dr. Rutton. Will Johnson is your host. Welcome back to AARP, The Perfect Scam, and the third part of our three-part series on Dr.
1:00.0	Freed Fata.
1:01.0	We are joined this week once again by a champion in the world of
1:05.1	bringing down Medicare and health care fraudsters. Peggy Spousado, thanks for
1:10.7	joining us once again. Thank you, my pleasure.
1:13.0	Peggy for many years was with the Department of Justice and a member of the Medicare
1:17.5	Fraud Strike Force, which sounds like serious business, and indeed it was, right, Peggy?
1:21.6	Yes, it was. It's was very serious you were actually a
1:23.8	nurse a nurse before you you got into the world of taking down bad guys right I did
1:30.7	a pretty long career as a registered nurse in the hospital and then I took my nurse
1:34.9	practitioner and went on with that for a while so I keep marching through careers.
1:38.8	Now I wanted to ask you before we get into this final chapter of our story about Dr. Freedfata, why is it relatively
1:44.8	easy for health care professionals to submit bogus claims to Medicare?
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