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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. Read the full story of Anastasia Mercer | Medical Noir | Matastasis HERE Stay informed. New investigations published daily. Nursing home abuse, neglect, and accountability from across the country. 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<p>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.</p>



<p>Read the full story of Anastasia Mercer | Medical Noir | Matastasis <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net/my-books-novellas/metastasis-anastasia-mercer-files-a-medical-noir-collection/" rel="noopener noreferrer">HERE</a></p>








  <p>Stay informed. New investigations published daily.</p>
  <p>Nursing home abuse, neglect, and accountability from across the country.</p>
  <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net/healthcare-news-investigation/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read All Investigations →</a>
  <p><a href="https://linktr.ee/nathaliefriaas" rel="noopener noreferrer">linktr.ee/nathaliefriaas</a></p>

<p>The post <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net/2026/04/25/metastasis-the-placenta-peddlers-podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Metastasis: The Placenta Peddlers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nathaliefrias.net" rel="noopener noreferrer">Silent Voices by Nathalie Frias</a>.</p>

Metastasis: The Placenta Peddlers

Silent Voices Audio Overview is an AI-generated audio series based on original articles, investigations, and fiction published on Silent Voices by Nathalie Frias. Each episode is an automated audio overview of a real post, covering healthcare failures in long-term care, elder abuse, documentation fraud, and the stories institutions tried to bury. Content is generated using NotebookLM. Written and published by Nathalie Frias, medical records professional and founder of Silent Voices. Silence protects the system. We protect the people in it.

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