NURSE BILKS MEDICARE FOR $12M BOGUS TESTS

NEW ORLEANS nurse practitioner Scharmaine Lawson Baker was convicted for her role in a $12.1 million Medicare swindle involving cancer genetic tests ordered for hundreds of patients who she never met or examined, federal officials say.

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According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Baker, 58, was found guilty of six counts of health care fraud after falsely diagnosing individuals to justify unnecessary screenings - and even impossibly claimed that male patients had cervical cancer.