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Nurse practitioners charged, doctors surrender licenses in prescription drug investigation – Jackson Clarion Ledger
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 [...]
Ex-Madison Memorial Hospital intern pleads guilty to three felonies – East Idaho News
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 [...]
Former Albion doctor expected to be sentenced on distribution, fraud charges – WWMT-TV
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 [...]
Wife of clinic doctor indicted in $13M fraud – The Commercial Dispatch
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 [...]
Janesville pharmacist to plead guilty in government fraud case – Janesville Gazette
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 [...]
Rochester Hills Pharmacist Sentenced To Over 4 Years For Conspiracy, Fraud – CBS Detroit
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 [...]
Greenacres doctor gets 10 years for prescription drug trafficking – Palm Beach Post
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. [...]
Johnstown doctor Kenneth Pettine pleads guilty to misdemeanor … – Loveland Reporter-Herald
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 [...]
Suburban Boca Raton woman charged with fraud, using doctors name to fill prescriptions – Palm Beach Post
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 [...]
Huntingtown woman faces 46 prescription fraud charges – So Md News (subscription)
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, [...]