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Feds: Founding doctor, 2 other Miss. cancer clinic workers charged with chemo treatment fraud

By Associated Press, Published: September 9

JACKSON, Miss. — A shuttered clinic in south Mississippi gave cancer patients less chemotherapy or cheaper drugs than they were led to believe and reused the same needles on multiple people as part of a multimillion-dollar Medicare and Medicaid fraud, a 15-count indictment says.

Three women, including Dr. Meera Sachdeva, the 50-year-old founder of Rose Cancer Center in Summit, were charged Thursday. The clinic had already been shut down by the state Health Department for "unsafe infection control practices."

Sachdeva has been ordered held without bond. Her attorney Rob McDuff, said she will plead not guilty "and we’ll go from there."

The defendants "knew that the liquid solutions that were infused into the patients treated at Rose Cancer Center contained a smaller amount of the chemotherapy drugs than the defendants had billed to various health care benefit programs, or contained different, less expensive drugs," the indictment says.

The clinic also billed the agencies for new syringes for each patient, even though it reused some on multiple people, authorities said.

Prosecutors say Medicaid and Medicare paid the clinic $15.1 million during that time. Authorities have seized $6 million.

The others charged are employees, 24-year-old Brittany McCoskey of Monticello and 43-year-old Monica Weeks of Madison.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/3-charged-in-alleged-chemo-treatment-fraud-at-miss-cancer-clinic-including-founding-doctor/2011/09/09/gIQArpJzFK_story.html