Florida oncology network that owes $120 million fine after admitting to criminal conspiracy to bilk cancer patients just got $67 million in COVID-19 aid, making them the state's largest recipient of federal coronavirus relief dollars #BecauseFlorida miamiherald.com/news/coronavir…
Fort Myers-based Florida Cancer Specialists "admitted in federal court on April 30 that it worked with unnamed co-conspirators to limit cancer treatment options for patients, agreeing to pay a $100M federal fine — the largest amount allowed by law — along with a $20M state fine." 
"At nearly the same time, Florida Cancer Specialists was awarded $67M in federal funds from the CARES Act $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress in March...the largest recipient of funds in Florida from a $30 billion pot of money distributed by @HealthyFla..."
"Florida Cancer Specialists’ $67 million in funding was more money than the total given by HHS to any of Miami-Dade County’s five congressional districts, even though Miami-Dade has the state’s highest COVID-19 infection and death rates of any large county."
"Florida Cancer Specialists received more money from the first round of CARES Act funding than any other cancer-specific hospital, clinic or related provider around the country...[and] the eighth most funds of any provider who has been awarded funding so far."
"Former Florida hospital executive and Pennsylvania congressman Jason Altmire said the massive federal grant shouldn’t have been awarded to a healthcare business that was simultaneously paying a huge fine for conspiring against patients..."
"Florida Cancer Specialists and co-conspirators agreed not to compete to provide chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Instead of one provider offering multiple services, [they] made an illegal agreement to provide chemotherapy exclusively while competitors provided radiation."
The Department of Justice said the scheme ran from 1999 to 2016:
"For almost two decades, Florida Cancer Specialists and its co-conspirators agreed to cheat by limiting treatment options available to cancer patients in order to line their pockets."
"For almost two decades, Florida Cancer Specialists and its co-conspirators agreed to cheat by limiting treatment options available to cancer patients in order to line their pockets."
"Employees of Florida Cancer Specialists have donated more than $320,000 to federal lawmakers and political committees in the last five years...CEO Brad Prechtl in 2016 donated $5,400 to the Trump Make America Great Again committee."
"Jackson Memorial Health System, Florida’s largest hospital...received $24 million in the first round of funding, about a third of Florida Cancer Specialists’ $67 million." #BecauseFlorida
