Dr. Rotten: Can Medicare Fraud Give You Cancer? Part 1
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A bustling oncology practice in Michigan is hiding something sinister. Patients come to Farid Fata at their most vulnerable, after they've been diagnosed with cancer or to receive the life-altering diagnosis. But when Angela, an oncology nurse, arrives at one of Fata's well-regarded clinics for an interview, she finds that nothing is as it seems. Horrified by what she sees, she reports the doctor for committing an unthinkable form of Medicare fraud.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on AARP the Perfect Scam. |
| 0:02.6 | It was March of 2010. |
| 0:05.2 | It's my day of Infamy that I will never forget. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello everyone, welcome back to AARP The the perfect scam. I'm your host |
| 0:14.3 | Will Johnson here in the studio with me once again is AARP's Fraud Watch Network |
| 0:19.0 | Ambassador Frank Abagnale Frank thanks for being here with us again. |
| 0:22.1 | Great to be with you, well thanks. |
| 0:24.0 | I know from talking to you, Frank, about Medicare fraud that it makes you pretty angry. |
| 0:28.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, I don't see you angry a lot. |
| 0:30.0 | Maybe angry is the wrong word, but it fires you up and there's reasons why |
| 0:33.7 | the story we're going to tell you about over the next three weeks is all about |
| 0:37.2 | Medicare fraud and how one individual in particular took huge advantage of the |
| 0:42.0 | system but this is a rampant problem. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm very I'm very passionate about fraud against the federal government especially. |
| 0:49.2 | Last year in 2018 we had about 970 billion dollars of fraud in this country. |
| 0:55.0 | This is fraud, white collar crime. |
| 0:57.0 | This has nothing to do with burglary, robbery, drugs, narcotics. |
| 1:00.0 | This is all about white collar related crimes, of which about $400 billion of that |
| 1:05.4 | was money stolen from the federal government. |
| 1:07.6 | So when we talk about Medicare, Medicare and Medicaid last year in 2018 lost over a hundred billion dollars in |
| 1:15.0 | fraudulent claims a hundred billion which is pretty much average it's been |
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