DES MOINES, Iowa — The Hope Law Firm represents more than 100 clients who have filed a class action lawsuit against Unity Point over a drug-switching case KCCI first reported in October at Methodist Hospital. View live video of a news conference on the lawsuit here. The lawsuit alleges Unity Point patients were exposed to [...]
Costco Wholesale has agreed to pay $11.75 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from allegations that its pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by filling prescriptions for controlled substances. The settlement was announced by attorneys from the central and eastern districts of California and the states of Washington and Michigan. Costco's pharmacies were accused [...]
The state is suing Dr. Kakra Gyambibi and her husband, University of Connecticut in Stamford employee Kwasi Gyambibi, for defrauding Connecticut’s employee drug prescription plan. According to the complaint, filed in Hartford Superior Court under the Connecticut False Claims Act, the Stamford pair engaged in a scheme designed to prescribe expensive, medically unnecessary compounded medications [...]
SALEM — A nurse who stole drugs from a Lincoln City hospital and other places he worked, including the state penitentiary, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and must surrender his nursing license. In a case that shocked state officials, Jason Hoffmann, 44, pled no contest in Marion County Circuit Court in January [...]
HelioMetrics Comment: Drug Diversion happens all over the world. It isn't a local or isolated problem. In this article, the problem is so bad, that patients are complaining about missing drugs almost everyday according to this article... Original Article Below: Distraught patients at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) have lamented that drugs purchased [...]
BUFFALO, NY-- The Amherst doctor who admitted to fraud by writing more than 200 illegal painkiller prescriptions will spend two years in prison. Dr. Albert Cowie got the sentence Thursday from U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo for fraud. Cowie had someone else fill the prescriptions at local pharmacies and give some of the pills back [...]
There's no shortage of doctors among the human faces that define the opioid epidemic. One of them, a well-known and well-regarded Amherst radiologist, is going to prison for two years. Albert R. Cowie, a recovering drug addict who admitted writing fraudulent prescriptions for painkillers, stood before a federal judge Thursday and apologized to his family, [...]
Long Island-based physician assistant Michael Troyan, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for leading an illegal oxycodone distribution scheme. Troyan was also ordered to forfeit the $710,000 made during the scheme, and to serve 3 years under a supervised release, according to Newsday. In an investigation led by the Long Island drug diversion unit of [...]
A NURSE has been struck off after stealing and taking drugs "two or three" times a day for six months while on duty at Dorset County Hospital. The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Conduct and Competence Committee held a hearing to discuss the conduct of Matthew Richard Taylor. He was charged with offences that took [...]
KULPMONT — A registered nurse is accused of stealing Oxycodone pills from patients at LIFE Geisinger Adult Day Center, Kulpmont in June and July 2015. According to Agent Duane Musser, of the Office of the Attorney General, Carol A. Matzura, 55, of 204 S. Maple St., Mount Carmel, replaced Oxycodone pills given to patients with [...]