Metastasis: The Placenta Peddlers

Silent Voices Podcast Investigative Audio · SV-2026
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A nursing home chart says the wound is healing. The smell in Room 12 says otherwise. In this episode, we follow Anastasia Mercer, a wound care nurse whose photographic memory for scent puts her on a collision course with one of the largest healthcare fraud schemes in American history. From a maggot-infested pressure ulcer in 2015 to a billion-dollar federal raid in 2026, this is the story of how one whistleblower learned to read billing codes the way she once read wound charts. Metastasis Case File 01: The Placenta Peddlers is fiction, but the $1.2 billion scheme behind it is real. Read the full case file at nathaliefrias.net. Subscribe to Silent Voices for chapters delivered to your inbox.

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