Florida oncology network that bilked cancer patients gets $67 million in COVID-19 aid

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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242592876.html

A Fort Myers-based oncology network that was Florida’s largest recipient of federal coronavirus relief dollars for healthcare facilities admitted last week to participating in a criminal conspiracy that limited treatment options available to cancer patients in order to maximize profits.

Florida Cancer Specialists, which employs 250 doctors in 100 facilities across Florida, admitted in federal court on April 30 that it worked with unnamed co-conspirators to limit cancer treatment options for patients, agreeing to pay a $100 million federal fine — the largest amount allowed by law — along with a $20 million state fine.

At nearly the same time, Florida Cancer Specialists was awarded $67 million in federal funds from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress in March. The $67 million made Florida Cancer Specialists the largest recipient of funds in Florida from a $30 billion pot of money distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services to help healthcare facilities affected by the pandemic.

Florida Cancer Specialists’ $67 million in funding was more money than the total given by HHS to any of Miami-Dade County’s five congressional districts, even though Miami-Dade has the state’s highest COVID-19 infection and death rates of any large county.

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1. Every day more stories of graft, deception, lies, theft, cheating. I'm sick of it.

What has happened to any sense of decency, truth and ethics in this country?

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAPPENED.