Prescription Fraud in the News

Department of Public Safety Commissioner Marshall Fisher, flanked by Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy (right) and Deputy Director Steven Maxwell (left) talks about the state's opioid epidemic.(Photo: Therese Apel/ The Clarion-Ledger) During the month of March, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics worked a drug overdose case every other day, on average. MBN Director [...]

0  Updated at 2:29 pm, May 16th, 2017  Nicholas Sherman IDAHO FALLS — A former Madison Memorial Hospital intern has pleaded guilty to forging stolen prescriptions from the hospital to get hydrocodone. Nicholas Sherman, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bonneville County to three felony charges of obtaining a controlled substance by deception, misrepresentation, fraud or forgery. [...]

Former Albion doctor expected to be sentenced on distribution, fraud charges ALBION, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A former Albion doctor is set to learn his fate, after admitting he wrote false prescriptions to patients. Horace Junior Davis is accused of illegally distributing prescription opioids, fraud, and conspiracy charges. Authorities raided the Calhoun County pharmacy where [...]

A Columbus woman has been indicted by a federal court in Alabama of conspiring to defraud health insurance companies. Robin Lowry, 49, is accused of being part of a multi-faceted scheme in which Global Compounding Pharmacy, an Alabama-based pharmaceutical company she worked for, defrauded Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and one of its prescription [...]

Thursday, May 4, 2017 MADISON—A Janesville pharmacist has agreed to a plea agreement in a federal case that charges him with Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Mark Johnson, who ran the former Kealey Pharmacy in downtown Janesville, would get some prison time under the terms of the agreement, according to an online court document for the [...]

DETROIT (WWJ) – A suburban Detroit pharmacist will spend over four years in prison for crimes related to distributing drugs illegally and health care fraud. Nadeem Iqbal, 56, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland to 52 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute prescription pills, health care fraud and money [...]

None A Greenacres anesthesiologist pleaded guilty to trafficking in hydrocodone prescription painkillers and was sentenced to 10 years in prison plus a $50,000 fine on Wednesday, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney Michael McAuliffe. The evidence showed that Dr. Brian Patrick Davey, 58, knowingly diverted prescription medications and helped others fraudulently obtain painkillers between [...]

A sentence of five years of supervised probation plus 200 hours of community service was imposed By Sam Lounsberry Reporter-Herald Staff Writer FORT COLLINS — Former Johnstown doctor and surgeon Kenneth Pettine pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor drug charges on Tuesday and was sentenced to five years of probation plus 200 hours of community service. [...]

A suburban Boca Raton woman is facing fraud charges after police say she allegedly forged her employer's prescriptions so often that the pharmacy technicians knew her personally. Joy Widener, 51, bonded out of the Palm Beach County Jail Wednesday night after her arrest on two counts of prescription fraud, and one count each of organized [...]

Forty-six prescription fraud-related charges were filed against a Huntingtown woman who allegedly called in false prescriptions to the Prince Frederick Walmart’s pharmacy from February 2016 to earlier this month using her doctor’s information. Laura Golibart-Guy, 43, faces 46 charges of obtaining a prescription by fraud and obtaining a drug by fraud, online court records show. [...]