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Florida Pharmacists Win $597 Million Blowing Whistle on Scheme

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T. Mark Jones learned about the costs and benefits of health-care delivery when he treated AIDS patients in Key West, Florida, in the late 1980s. The pharmacy he co-founded -- unusual at the time -- provided a humane last step for gay men who didn’t want to spend their final weeks confined to a hospital.

Jones, a registered nurse, went into homes to dispense infusion-therapy drugs and teach patients to care for themselves.