It started with a chance conversation between a doctor and a nurse several years ago. But that brief encounter may end up exposing what could be one of the largest Medicare frauds in U.S. history. Dr. Alon Vainer, a medical director at dialysis clinics in Georgia, was discussing clinic procedures with one of the nurses, Daniel Barbir. The two men say they saw something they believed was very wrong: expensive medicine, and lots of it, was being tossed in the trash. And the clinic workers were being told to do it, the two men say. "When we sat down and started talking about it and getting into details, we actually realized exactly what was going on," Vainer said.
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A doctor and nurse have filed a whistleblower suit against DaVita Dialysis
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The two claim the company was over-billing Medicare and Medicaid
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They say the company was wasting medication and throwing it away
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The company denies the claims, saying decisions were made in patients' best interests
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