by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2018 | Doctor charged, Plea agreement |
Jay Joshi, MD, 33, a family practitioner in Munster, Indiana, was indicted January 23, 2018 on four counts of selling, distributing or dispensing hydrocodone based on prescriptions issued to a government agent falsely perpetrating himself as a patient in need of...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Tue, 2018 | Plea agreement |
Gilberto Sanchez, MD, 56, of Cecil, Alabama, pleaded guilty Nov, 2017 to drug distribution conspiracy, health care fraud, and money laundering charges from his family practice in Montgomery, AL. Now here’s an interesting tidbit of information. Try to figure this out....
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Thu, 2018 | Plea agreement |
Devendrakumar (Devendra) Ishwarbhai Patel, 58, a cardiologist in Elko, Nevada is the first in that state to face criminal charges since the formation of the Justice Department’s Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit. Nevada is one of 12 states under a U.S. Justice...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Tue, 2018 | Plea agreement |
Robert Rand, 54, of Reno Nevada was sentenced Nov, 2017 to 10 years for his June, 2017 guilty pleas to involuntary manslaughter and illegal distribution of a controlled substance. He maintained his innocence for over a year. But doctors don’t receive justice, forcing...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Wed, 2018 | Acquitted |
Four doctors in Carmel, IN, a suburb of Indianapolis, have sued the city and government officials responsible for the illegal attack on their clinic, Drug Opiate & Recovery Network (DORN), an addiction center prescribing Suboxone, in July, 2014. The lawsuit asks...