by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Thu, 2016 | Plea agreement |
This is the first case I’ve seen of hospital-owned physicians being charged. David Neil Ringel, DO, family physician in Connersville, Indiana, entered a guilty plea in Fayette Circuit Court to a single count of conspiracy to commit forgery June 17, 2016. In exchange...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Thu, 2016 | Doctor charged |
James Fullerton Hooper, MD, 69, a psychiatrist and owner of Dr. James Hooper’s Clinic in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, had been indicted so far on five counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and, according to the police press release, also five counts...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Thu, 2016 | Plea agreement |
Steven Kotsonis, MD, 34, of Compassionate Care Clinic in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin was indicted June 21st. The indictment was for 21 counts including conspiracy and distribution of controlled drugs. His office manager, Susan Moyer, 53, was charged with 10 similar counts....
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Fri, 2016 | Convicted physician |
Jeffrey Bado, DO, 60, of Philadelphia, is facing a September trial on a 322-count federal indictment related to opioid prescribing. Dr. Bado calls himself a “poster child” in the war against doctors. Seeing the ineffectiveness of the usual interventional treatments of...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Sun, 2016 | Convicted physician |
Michael Minas, MD, 51, a solo, independent family practice doctor in Eagle, Idaho, was indicted in June, 2014, with seventeen counts of distributing a controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. He...