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Health News Florida Years Later, Health Dept. Files Complaint By Carol Gentry February 14, 2013 The state Department of Health is moving to discipline Dr. Fernando Mendez-Villamil, a psychiatrist whose unusual prescribing habits have been making headlines in Florida — even nationwide — for years. As John Dorschner of The Miami Herald reported in 2009, [...]
PsychSearch.net Florida Files Complaint Against Top Prescriber By Ken Kramer February 13, 2013 The Florida Department of Health has filed a complaint against psychiatrist Fernando Mendez-Villamil, arguably America’s most prolific prescriber of psych drugs. He wrote $43 million worth of prescriptions in a 6 year period – about 153 prescriptions every day, paid for by [...]
From 2008 through 2011, Reinstein was one of the top prescribers of Seroquel and Zyprexa in Illinois. See here: Top Prescribers MedScape Psychiatrist Accused in Alleged Prescription Kickback Scandal MD Described as Nation’s ‘Top Prescriber’ of Clozapine Nancy A. Melville Dec 17, 2012 In what federal prosecutors say is the largest prescription fraud case in [...]
Taps ProPublica High-Prescribing Chicago Psychiatrist Faces Federal Fraud Suit by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber Nov. 15, 2012 The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois filed a federal fraud lawsuit today against a Chicago psychiatrist profiled by ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune in 2009 for his excessive prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to nursing [...]
Idaho Statesman Idaho’s Medicaid payments for prescription drugs questioned But the state says Medicaid records don’t prove doctors are overprescribing November 11, 2012 By AUDREY DUTTON U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has assumed a role as a taxpayer watchdog, says some Idaho physicians have overprescribed antipsychotic drugs and addictive narcotics such as [...]
Hallelujah! The floodgates have opened! PsychSearch.net is on the move! A team of crackerjack investigators have been assembled and are compiling the top psych drug prescribers for the entire United States of America! Most of the states are now uploaded. You can see where we are now here: List of U.S. Top Psych Drug Prescribers [...]
BusinessJournalism.org Use state agencies to track prescribers and drug company connections By Rosland Gammon Aug 08, 2012 Lisa Chedekel of the Connecticut Health I-Team, a non-profit health news site, used information collected by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley as a starting point for her story on the “dual role of doctors as heavy prescribers and drug [...]
Connecticut Health I-Team by Lisa Chedekel Jul 28, 2012 In 2010 and 2011, Dr. Irene Abramovich of West Hartford was the state’s top prescriber of Invega, an antipsychotic medication marketed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals. She also was in the top five prescribers of Zyprexa, an antipsychotic marketed by Eli Lilly, in 2008 and 2009. Drug company [...]
Today, PsychSearch.net released more documents in the national investigation of top psych prescribers. States released today are: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan and Nebraska. One egregious example, Fernando Mendez-Villamil, the Miami psychiatrist who wrote $43 million worth of psych drugs between 2004 – 2009 (over 150 prescriptions per day!). Mendez-Villamil was terminated from the [...]
PsychSearch.net and Document Cloud are again teaming up to release documents to the public. The identities of the top American Medicaid prescribers of “antipsychotic” drugs and the “anti-anxiety” drug Xanax are being released. The identities are being released in public record form for each state where available. Included in the records are the identities of [...]
Massachusetts Top Prescribers (PDF) Massachusetts Top Prescribers (Text)
Wyoming Top Prescribers (PDF) Wyoming Top Prescribers (Text)
Wisconsin Top Prescribers (PDF) Wisconsin Top Prescribers (Text)
West Virginia Top Prescribers (PDF) West Virginia Top Prescribers (Text)
