Dr. Rotten: Can Medicare Fraud Give You Cancer? Part 3
The Perfect Scam
AARP
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🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
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 | This week on AARP, the perfect scam. |
| 0:03.0 | He was harming them, he was killing them, he was poisoning them. |
| 0:08.0 | How is that not murder? |
| 0:10.0 | The fact is, you put me through this, you know, what if it was your family that you did this was done to your son your daughter your wife and he wouldn't even look at me would not even look at me. Welcome back to AARP, The Perfect Scam, and the third part of our three-part series on Dr. |
| 0:29.0 | Freed Fata. |
| 0:30.0 | We are joined this week once again by a champion in the world of bringing down Medicare and |
| 0:36.4 | health care fraudsters. |
| 0:38.4 | Peggy Spousado, thanks for joining us once again. |
| 0:40.6 | Thank you, my pleasure. |
| 0:41.6 | Peggy for many years was with the Department of Justice |
| 0:43.9 | and a member of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which sounds like serious business, and |
| 0:49.3 | indeed it was, right Peggy? Yes, it was. It's very serious. You were actually a nurse a nurse before you you got into the world of taking down |
| 0:57.4 | bad guys. Right I did a pretty long career as a registered nurse in the hospital and then I took my |
| 1:03.7 | nurse practitioner and went on with that for a while so I keep marching through |
| 1:07.2 | careers. Now I wanted to ask you before we get into this final chapter of our |
| 1:11.3 | story about Dr. Freedfata why is it relatively easy for health care |
| 1:14.7 | professionals to submit bogus claims to Medicare? It seems like that should be something that |
| 1:19.9 | shouldn't be happening. |
| 1:21.1 | Right. Well, it seems, I said there's a little story that I heard early, early on when I started during this job |
| 1:26.7 | and it said, I'll repeat it as I wrote it, Medicare is a federal health care program |
| 1:32.1 | funded by the Medicare Trust Fund, operative |
| 1:34.7 | word trust. |
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