Judge reschedules sentencing in cancer center fraud case
by Associated Press
Published: September 25,2012
Tags: bench, billing, Cancer, chemotherapy, court, decision, doctor, fraud, health, health care, hearing, investigation, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, medical, medicine, needles, office manager, public health, ruling, sentence, sentencing
SUMMIT — A federal judge has rescheduled sentencing hearings for three women convicted in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving watered-down chemotherapy drugs and old needles.
Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks are scheduled for sentencing Nov. 16 in U.S. District Court in Jackson. Sentencing had been scheduled for Monday.
Sachdeva founded the Rose Cancer Center in the South Mississippi town of Summit in 2005. She pleaded guilty July 13 to one count of health care fraud and two counts of making false statements.
Weeks, who handled the clinic’s billing from her Ridgeland firm, Medical Billing Group, pleaded guilty the same day to conspiracy.
McCoskey, the office manager, pleaded guilty May 17 to making false statements.
The clinic was closed after creating a scare that dirty needles contaminated patients.
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