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Rent a Patient

By AAN Staff
april 29, 2003  10:53 am
Rent a Patient
The patients, recent immigrants from countries such as Mexico and Vietnam, are bused in from Arizona for procedures ranging from circumcisions to colonoscopies at a string of California clinics. Every single operation is unnecessary, part of a shocking new health-care scam in which perfectly healthy patients voluntarily go under the knife (or scope) -- and, thanks in part to state laws that force insurance companies to pay claims promptly, everybody involved gets rich. As Paul Rubin of Phoenix New Times reports, it's not always easy money.
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