Dr. Farid Fata (Fata) is the most egregious fraudster in the history of this country, measured not by the millions of dollars he stole but by the harm he inflicted on his victims, over 550 identified so far. Rather than healing or easing the suffering of the cancer patients and others who sought his help, Fata administered thousands of unnecessary treatments—a variety of chemical infusions and injections, all with potentially harmful and even deadly side effects—to the patients who entrusted him with their care. He did it entirely for his own benefit.
To accomplish his goal of administering and billing for expensive, unnecessary treatments, Fata had to tell lies. He had to tell thousands upon thousands of lies and perpetrate untold numbers of deceits upon his patients, their family members, his staff, other treating physicians, insurers, and even charitable foundations seeking to assist his patients. The lies Fata told differed in many ways, but were the same in one. Fata’s singular overriding purpose was to persuade, cajole, frighten and deceive his patients into accepting more injections, more infusions, more tests, and any other treatments that he could bill through his solely owned practice, Michigan Hematology Oncology (MHO) and its infusion centers, opened in 2005, and later his pharmacy Vital Pharmacare (Vital) and diagnostic testing facility, United Diagnostics, both opened in 2013. The longer Fata kept patients in his infusion chairs, the more money he made. To Fata, patients were not people. They were profit centers.
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