Anatomy of a $30 Billion Medicare Crime | Truthout

Anatomy of a $30 Billion Medicare Crime | Truthout
The deal was this: if the oncologist would inject his patients with high doses of a poorly tested drug, he could pocket $1,500.

But the doctor was too busy to select patients for this "study." So, the salesman, Dean McClellan, combed through the confidential patient files himself, searching for a few human guinea pigs to enroll. He found his subjects and, over the ensuing weeks, tracked their reactions to the high doses of the anti-anemia drug Procrit. "Cancer to the brain was worse," the rep wrote in one patient chart. "But anemia was better."