On April 23, 2024, he was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, 12 counts of illegal distribution of a controlled substance, one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and two counts of healthcare fraud.
Dr. Khan owns New England Medicine and Counseling Associates (NEMCA), which operates 5 clinics in Vermont and New Hampshire, offering services in addiction treatment and medical cannabis. The controlled substance charges, as usual, use the phrase in the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) that was designed to protect doctors, by desecrating it to say “outside the course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose”. The government alleges that Dr. Khan prescribed the drugs knowing that at least some of his patients were abusing and diverting the drugs. But if he prescribed medications for chronic pain to a legitimate patient with an office record, they should not be able to use the CSA against him. Doctors are not policemen. If he recognized a patient was abusing, he is the right doctor to see, as he had a specialty in addiction medicine, and would treat them appropriately. The government is banking on the propaganda they have placed in all American minds that doctors are simply drug pushers because they prescribe opioids.
The fraud charges, as usual, are charging him with unnecessary urine drug testing. Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. They will come after their targets whichever way works. Either you do too many drug tests or you don’t do them enough.
Now Dr. Khan lives in New Hampshire, has clinics in 3 states, but it is Vermont where the case is pending. I wonder why Vermont was picked. Vermont is not a big state for these attacks. Maybe they have finally seen the money that they can make through these attacks.
Dr. Khan was associated with another doctor who was charged earlier and took a plea last year involving Medicare fraud—Dr. Steven Powell, 54, of Grantham, NH, who is still awaiting sentencing. He’ll probably be waiting on that until he either testifies against Dr. Khan, or Dr. Khan takes a plea. They have been working together since 2016, with Powell at NEMCA’s offices in New Hampshire while Dr. Khan operated from the clinic in Vermont.
As we can see, it made no difference in the government’s attacks of minority or elderly physicians that the Supreme Court, in the Kahn/Ruan cases, stated that a doctor’s intent mattered in bringing charges against him. The DOJ obviously doesn’t pay attention to SCOTUS. Over the last 20 years, since the Andersen fiasco, government agencies have been given a free hand to do whatever they want with no consequences. We must get the Controlled Substance Act repealed, remove immunity from law-breaking government agencies, exonerate doctors who have been persecuted, and provide compensation for them and their immediate family. If not, our government will continue down this slippery slope of lawlessness and God will step in.
The real criminals—those reaping the money and assets of the doctor—are the DEA, HHS-OIG, the FBI, and the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, and the Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit. The people involved in this illegal action are:
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Nikolas P. Kerest for the District of Vermont; Acting Special Agent in Charge Stephen Belleau and Diversion Program Manager Evangela Dortch of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New England Division; Special Agent in Charge Roberto Coviello of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) Boston Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Craig L. Tremaroli of the FBI Albany Field Office; Attorney General Charity R. Clark of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, on behalf of the office’s Medicaid Fraud & Residential Abuse Unit; Trial Attorneys Thomas D. Campbell and Danielle H. Sakowski of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Gilman for the District of Vermont.
Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
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I worked very closely with Dr. Adnan Khan since 2017. I also knew Powell (he doesn’t deserve the title Dr.). Dr. Khan is one of the kindest most honorable people I know and this situation has left several patients without treatment and employees without jobs.
This is unjust and makes me angry. There are other Doctors I know who are operating in many unlawful ways but the government targets one of the decent ones.
I hope this ends in his favor. I am one left without employment trying to help patients find other programs. Dr. Khan is facing loss of his business, career, prison time, etc. Very wrong.
Jessica Coleman, BA. CSC
Then get behind what is needed to end this for you, him, and all others affected by this government misconduct. We have the answer on Doctorsofcourage, which is to teach the real cause of drug abuse/addiction and end the War on Drugs, period. We need to repeal the CSA and we have the knowledge to do that. People just need to learn it and teach it. If you, and anyone else affected by these attacks ignore this, then don’t complain. Soon there will be no opioids in the US. And the addiction rate, I predict, will be 10% by 2030. I hope to see you in my next ecourse to teach what is needed.
I’ve noticed that the feds are charging more and more facilities and providers with insurance fraud, whether or not they are involved with opioids. This comes at a time when the Medicare and Medicaid programs are in severe financial trouble and makes me suspicious that they are just trying to raise money. Problem is that they are doing this without due process in violation of the US Constitution and are adding additional burdens onto providers many of whom are suffering from burnout and are on the verge of quitting, leaving their patients without care.
You are right. There is no defense for a fraud charge. When they win a case of medicare/medicaid fraud, they are reimbursed 5x what they paid the doctor for the service because they collect what the doctor charged, not what the doctor was paid. This is being used more because there isn’t as much work to take it to court, and usually the doctor pleas. We have to change the laws they are using here.