by Associated Press Published: May 23,2012
Tags: bench, Cancer, chemotherapy, clinics, courts, doctors, health, health care, health care fraud, judges, judicial, judiciary, law, medical, medicine, physicians
SUMMIT — An ex-office manager has pleaded guilty in what prosecutors say was a multi-million-dollar health care fraud in which a cancer clinic gave patients diluted chemotherapy drugs and used old syringes on multiple people. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks were indicted last August on charges including conspiracy and witness tampering related [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 2,2012
Tags: Cancer, cancer center, chemotherapy, clinic, doctors, federal agency, fraud, health, health care, medical, medicine, onccologist, oncology, physicians, trial
SUMMIT — A trial that had been scheduled to begin today has been delayed for a former cancer clinic owner and two others charged with participating in a multi-million-dollar fraud that allegedly involved diluting chemotherapy drugs and using old syringes on multiple patients. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks are charged with offenses [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2012
Tags: Cancer, chemotherapy, clinics, courts, doctors, fraud, health, health care, infections, judges, judicial, judiciary, medical, medicine, physicians
SUMMIT — Mississippi health officials say none of the nearly 300 cancer patients they tested from a defunct clinic have contracted viral blood infections such as HIV because of care at the facility, which is suspected of diluting chemotherapy drugs and using old needles. The Mississippi Health Department closed Rose Cancer Center in Summit in [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 9,2012
Tags: Cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, clinic, courts, doctors, health, healthcare, medicine, oncologists, physicians
SUMMIT — A defense lawyer wants a federal judge to give him more time to prepare for trial in the case of a cancer clinic accused of using old syringes and watered-down chemotherapy drugs. Attorney George Lucas asked for the delay because he expects prosecutors to hand over thousands more pages of information he must [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 5,2011
Tags: Cancer, cancer treatment, chemotherapy, clinics, doctors, health benefits, healthcar, healthcare insurance, insurance fraud, medicine, physicians
SUMMIT — A federal judge has set a Feb. 7 trial date for a doctor and two others charged in a massive chemotherapy fraud case that authorities say swindled millions from Medicaid and Medicare. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, founder of Rose Cancer Center in Summit, and two others are charged with numerous federal crimes for allegedly [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 22,2011
Tags: Cancer, chemotherapy, clinics, courts, doctors, fraud, health benefits, healthcare, healthcare fraud, medicine, physicians
SUMMIT — A cancer doctor stood shackled before a federal judge yesterday and pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing millions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare by diluting chemotherapy drugs and reusing old needles on multiple patients. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, the 50-year-old founder of Rose Cancer Center in Summit, said little other than to [...] [...]