South Carolina Top Prescribers Must Repay $1.9 million
Post and Courier Health providers to repay $1.9 million - Improper billing to Medicaid cited By Renee Dudley March [...]
Hawaii – State Cuts High Prescribers from Medicaid
Star Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) State cuts doctors from Medicaid Three were pulled from the program because of prescription volumes [...]
Top Prescribing Child Psychiatrist in Hot Water – Texas
Houston Chronicle Complaint alleges Houston-based doctor improperly gave drugs to child By Lise Olsen and Todd Ackerman March 28, [...]
TOP PRESCRIBERS – 7 Arizona doctors lose Medicaid contracts
Arizona Republic 7 Arizona doctors lose Medicaid contracts AHCCCS dismissals come amid prescription probe by Ken Alltucker Apr. 10, 2012 [...]
TennCare blocks 3 top drug prescribers in fight against fraud, abuse
Tennessean TennCare blocks 3 top drug prescribers in fight against fraud, abuse Written by Duane W. Gang and Brian Haas [...]
A Possible Federal Solution to Psych Drugging Kids
Youth Today Rate at Which Psychiatric Meds Are Prescribed to Foster Youth Alarms GAO Administration could mull regulation of monitoring, [...]
Drug Company Financial Ties
Drug Company Financial Ties
Off Label – practice
“Off label” refers to the fraudulent and illegal practice of prescribing drugs for treatments other than those for which they [...]
STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING
Palm Beach Post Shoddy records stall drug probe at Florida Department of Juvenile Justice By Dara Kam and Michael LaForgia [...]
North Carolina Scrutinizing Psych Drug Use in Children
Are some foster kids over-medicated? NC now looking to scrutinize how Medicaid dispensed to children North Carolina now has a [...]
Dosed in juvie jail: Investigators focus on antipsychotic doses for kids and possible fraud
Palm Beach Post Dosed in juvie jail: Investigators focus on antipsychotic doses for kids and possible fraud By Michael LaForgia [...]
Psychs Avoid Penalties in Suits Against Medical Firms
ProPublica Doctors Avoid Penalties in Suits Against Medical Firms by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein Evidence sealed at settlement For [...]
Drug makers pad doctors’ income
The News-Press (Fort Myers, Florida) By FRANK GLUCK Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors in Lee and Collier counties almost $1.5 [...]
Carlos Delos-Reyes, Psychiatrist, License Revoked, Misconduct, Accepted Kidney From Patient
The Ithaca Journal (New York) Elmira psychiatrist loses license June 17, 2011 By G. Jeffrey Aaron The New York State [...]
End juvenile injustices
Palm Beach Post By Rhonda Swan New Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Wansley Walters is right to examine the [...]
Another suit filed against embattled jail psychiatrist
Hernando Today By TONY HOLT She was offended, violated and wasn't going to take it anymore, she said. The former [...]
Florida restricts license of ex-Hernando jail psychiatrist accused of molesting female inmates
St. Petersburg Times By John Woodrow Cox March 28, 2011 BROOKSVILLE — The Florida surgeon general has restricted the license [...]
TN Won’t Turn Over Names of Top Prescribers To Senate Committee
Nashville Scene by Brantley Hargrove In this week\'s cover story, \"Pharm League,\" we take a look at a few Nashville [...]
State snubs feds in doctor probe
Rapid City Journal Journal Editorial Board South Dakota is one of 10 states that failed to provide complete information to [...]
3 local MDs are paid experts, also prescribe the drugs
San Diego Union Tribune Speaker's fees reach five figures, payments that are legal but raise questions about potential conflicts By [...]
Top antipsychotic prescribers also drug promoters
California Watch By Christina Jewett Three San Diego County doctors who accepted five-figure payments from pharmaceutical companies have emerged on [...]
Some docs face fraud inquiry
Post & Courier Senator looking into S.C. Medicaid prescription billing By Renee Dudley An influential U.S. senator is checking up [...]
Beleaguered doc was biggest Medicaid prescriber of pain ‘lollipop’
Journal Inquirer Beleaguered doc was biggest Medicaid prescriber of pain ‘lollipop’ By Don Michak A Berlin psychiatrist whose license to [...]
U.S. Senator scrutinizes top Oklahoma prescribers of pain, anti-psychotic medications
Oklahoman BY RANDY ELLIS A state agency has forwarded lists of the top 10 Oklahoma Medicaid prescribers of OxyContin, Xanax [...]
Top prescribers under Senate’s microscope
Star Tribune U.S. Sen Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, examined Minnesota doctors as part of his investigation into the overprescription of drugs, [...]
Editorial: Senator asks good questions about prescription drugs
The Herald-Dispatch Editorial: Senator asks good questions about prescription drugs He is a U.S. senator from another state, but we [...]
Feds eye doctors’ prescriptions for drug fraud
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Andrew Conte One Pennsylvania doctor wrote prescriptions for more than $1 million worth of an antipsychotic drug. [...]
Senator Grassley Cites Connecticut Example Of Doctors Who Write Too Many Prescripstions
Hartford Courant (blog) By Matthew Sturdevant U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, cited a Connecticut example of doctors who [...]
State provides spending data on prescription drugs to senator
Arizona Daily Star Stephanie Innes Arizona last year spent at least $5.3 million on 11 powerful pain and antipsychotic medications [...]
Psychiatrist Peter Gleason disciplined in three states. Not Florida
Health News Florida Patient-protection watchdogs decided this case didn't merit a bark; were they right? Carol Gentry, Editor July 16, [...]