Lisa Hofschulz, 61, an Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber and her ex-husband Robert Hofschulz, 73, clinic business manager, both owners of Clinical Pain Consultants in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, were convicted of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and unlawful distribution of controlled substances following a nine-day trial. Lisa Hofschulz was also convicted of unlawful distribution of controlled substances resulting in death.

As a licensed Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber, Ms. Hofschulz could legally prescribe controlled drugs. The government used opiaphobia and propaganda to attack her, saying she didn’t properly assess, diagnose, treat or review her clients, but handed out prescriptions to just about anyone who said they suffered pain.  But it isn’t the practitioner’s job to be the police.  We must take the patient’s story as it is given.

The standard jury mind-tampering phrase used in the closing argument by prosecutor Julie Stewart was

“That’s not practicing medicine, that’s drug dealing.”

Another mind-tampering and propaganda-creating statement by the prosecutor that cements in the jurors’ minds that pain patients are addicts simply because they are on opioids was

“It was a pill-mill masquerading as a medical office,” where the defendants “preyed on customers’ addictions,”

The point of attacking the clinic and the Hofschulzes is forfeiture of assets. The government is hopeful of obtaining the $2.2 million recorded as income by the business for the years in question. Another fact that made them a target was that their clinic was the highest prescriber of opioids in Wisconsin Medicaid providers.  That is one of the analyses that the government uses the PDMP for—to identify and target doctors who prescribe to government insured or private insurances in cahoots with them.

The indictment in 2018 was the standard distribution of oxycodone, methadone and other drugs “outside the usual course of medical practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose.” This is the government’s illegitimate use of the exemption clause in the Controlled Substance Act that is supposed to actually protect medical professionals from criminal charges.

Probable Patient Suicide Blamed on LIsa Hofschulz

In the case of the patient who died, the government—and therefore the jury–held Ms. Hofschulz responsible because she was the prescriber. But here are the facts:

The patient got a prescription 2 days prior to his death for 150 30mg oxycodone with directions to take 5/day and 60 morphine tablets to take twice per day.  So the count on his death should have been 140 oxycodone and 56 morphine. But what he had when found was 50 oxycodone and 35 morphine.  Now how can the medical provider be held responsible for a patient taking three to four times more medication than directed to?  And to me, that amount of overdosing sounds like suicide.

Pain Management in Wisconsin and the US

Both of these indictments were part of a larger National Healthcare Fraud and Opioid Takedown coordinated by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services.  It was the largest ever health care fraud enforcement actions, involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals. Of those charged, 162 defendants, including 76 doctors, were charged for their roles in prescribing and distributing opioids.

A year after charging the Hofschulzes, federal prosecutors announced they had warned 180 health care professionals in Wisconsin about overprescribing painkillers.

Federal authorities have investigated other area pain clinics, including Universal Pain Center.  Steven Kotsonis, MD and Susan Moyer, manager at Compassionate Care Clinic in Waiwatosa were each sentenced to a year and a day in prison after they pleaded guilty in 2019.

So the future of pain management looks pretty bleak unless people get on the cor “wreck” ting train that can bust through the government propaganda.  That means joining us, learning the truth, and teaching it to others.

Addendum:

Lisa was convicted in August, 2021 and found responsible for the death of the patient who took 100 of his oxycodone and 25 of his morphine prior to his death.  This is a flagrant abuse of the law and  evidence of the propagandised mind of jurors today.  She was sentenced Dec. 2021 to 20 years in prison. But the judge did not instruct the jury about “good faith”, so the case is being appealed. Hopefully the Supreme Court will hear and decide the 2 cases before them which will help this appeal.

Lisa’s husband was sentenced to 3 years in prison.