A Wagram woman was recently arrested in connection with multiple incidents of prescription fraud. Dorothy Ellis McNeill, 68, is charged with four counts of obtaining a schedule II controlled substance by fraud and four counts of felony possession of a Schedule II controlled-substance. She is accused of providing false information to Moore County health care providers [...]
A former Huntsville doctor, who was the nation's highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers, was sentenced today to serve 15 years in federal prison. Shelinder Aggarwal pleaded guilty late last year to illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting at least $9.5 million in health care fraud. The fraud included millions in unneeded and unused urine [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
COLE COUNTY, Mo. - Cole County Commissioners passed an ordinance Tuesday approving a prescription drug monitoring program in the county. But since all pharmacies in Cole County are in Jefferson City limits, the city must pass a similar measure for the program to go into full effect. Stacy Welling, the president of Whaley's Pharmacy, Inc. [...]
Image: A Brighton and Hove man was wrongly arrested for presenting a fraudulent prescription after an IT mix-up. A patient has been wrongly arrested for a fraudulent prescription because of a IT systems mix-up in Brighton and Hove. Papers from Brighton and Hove CCG’s board meeting last month show that the man presented a legitimate [...]
SPRINGFIELD, MA (AP) - Following a lengthy investigation by authorities, a doctor in Agawam has been indicted over allegations he committed insurance fraud when prescribing opioid medications to patients. Dr. Frank Stirlacci, 55, from Ludlow, and the woman who allegedly helped him with the prescriptions, Jessica Miller, 36, from Springfield have each been charged with 20 [...]
A Lock Haven woman is facing charges after allegedly creating unauthorized drug prescriptions at the State College doctor's office where she worked as a medical assistant. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, a pharmacist in Lock Haven last week contacted a narcotics agent in the Office of the Attorney General to inform him that [...]
Jessie Gianni. Photo courtesy Colorado Springs Police Department. A man arrested earlier this week nearly closes out a prescription drug ring discovered in 2015 that led to 25 people being charged. Jessie Gianni, 26, was arrested late Sunday on four warrants as he was leaving his motel room on South Nevada Avenue. Court documents revealed [...]