A man by the name of Farid Fata a detroit area hematologist-oncologist, had plead guilty in september 2014 for 13 counts of health care fraud, one count of conspriacy to pay or receive kickbacks and two conts of money laundering. He sumbitted $34 million in fraudulent claims to medicare and other insurers for these unnecessary treatments. He also prescribed and administered unnecessary aggressive chemotherapy, cancer treatments, intravenous iron and other infusion therapies to 553 individual patients to increase his billings to medicare and other insurance companies. Fata used the proceeds of the health care fraud a his medical practice to promote the health care fraud at United Diagnostics, where he gave unnecessary and lower cost positron
