Pennsylvania doc accused to self-prescribing painkillers
A York County doctor was arrested today by state narcotics agents for allegedly filling prescription pain medication for his own personal...
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Fraud, drug charges filed against Mass. woman
A Suffolk County grand jury handed up an indictment yesterday against a Marlboro woman on identity and health insurance fraud charges...
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Florida doc who enabled addicts sentenced to 20 years
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, Gregory R. Miller, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida and Mark R. Trouville,...
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N.J. woman sentenced for fraud and drug diversion
A Burlington County woman was sentenced Thursday for stealing more than $48,000 by filing phony prescription drugs claims, state authorities said....
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Painkiller use up 1,000% in some areas
Retail sales of killer oxycodone increased five-fold here and across the state between 1997 and 2005, underscoring the increasing pain of...
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Tennessee surgeon wrote 35,000 illegal prescriptions
A former Athens, TN Orthopedic Surgeon pled guilty to Obtaining Drugs by Fraud and Conspiracy to Obtain Drugs by Fraud earlier...
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Va. to crack down on doctor shopping
Virginia is expanding to 24-hours-a-day a program aimed at cracking down on people who abuse prescription drugs by going “doctor shopping”...
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Houston doc who stole millions sentenced to 11 years
The sentencing of a Houston physician for health fraud took an interesting twist Monday with revelations of a murder-for-hire plot targeting...
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Uniform prescription form saved NY $60M in fraud
A law that requires doctors to use an official state prescription form for all written prescriptions has generated $60 million in...
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Connecticut doc arrested for writing illegal prescriptions
A physician from Haddam has been charged with multiple counts of illegally prescribing narcotics and other medications at the a Meriden...
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