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Feds: Hospice center paid crooked doctor kickbacks for cancer patients

By Detroit Free Press  
   November 30, 2016

As if the criminal case involving crooked cancer doctor Farid Fata couldn't get any uglier, along come fresh allegations that another player in the medical community also made money by taking advantage of cancer patients: a hospice center. According to the U.S. Attorneys Office, Vitas Health Corporation Midwest and other related entities have agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that they contributed money to Fata's cancer charity in exchange for him referring cancer patients to Vitas' hospice care services.

 

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