FRAUD
“Renowned” Puerto Rico Psychiatrist Alfonso Madrid Arrested – Fraud
San Juan Star Noted Psychiatrist Among Those Held for Workers’ Comp Fraud By MARIA MIRANDA SIERRA September 6, 2013 Renowned psychiatrist Alfonso Madrid was one of the people arrested during a federal raid Thursday morning related to federal program fraud at the U.S. Labor Department, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico Rosa Emilia Rodríguez announced at a news conference in the Hato Rey sector of San Juan. Madrid, a well-known and respected doctor in Puerto Rico, is best known for his evaluation of the sexual assault victim in the case of former San Juan Security Commissioner Hilton Cordero. [...]
Tennessee Psychiatrist Sidney Moragne Prescribed Methadone without a License – Gets Slap on Wrist
Jackson Sun Jackson psychiatrist placed on probation by David Thomas Aug. 16, 2013 Psychiatrist Sidney Moragne The Board of Medical Examiners of the state of Tennessee has placed Dr. Sidney Moragne on probation for a period of no less than three years. Moragne is a psychiatrist with a private practice in Jackson. The Jackson Sun attempted to reach Moragne at his office but was told he was on vacation. He was placed on probation by the board for prescribing methadone for methadone maintenance to patients of his private practice without a license required by the Tennessee Department of Mental [...]
New Jersey Psychiatrist Claudio Dikovsky Guilty of Accepting Bribes
NorthJersey.com Paterson psychiatrist pleads guilty to accepting bribes for directing blood work to Parsippany lab July 17, 2013 BY JIM NORMAN A Paterson psychiatrist and two other New Jersey physicians pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for sending blood samples to a Parsippany-based diagnostic medical laboratory, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Claudio Dikovsky, 51, who lives in Fort Lee and has a medical office in Paterson, admitted he accepted more than $224,000 from Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services for phony contracts to provide space and services for the lab, Fishman said. The money [...]
Miami Psychiatrist Arrested – $63 million Fraud Case
Miami Herald Miami doctor and therapists charged with $63 million Medicare-fraud scam BY JAY WEAVER July 16, 2013 A psychiatrist who has been practicing in Miami since the 1970s was arrested Tuesday along with six therapists on charges of scheming to steal $63 million from the taxpayer-funded Medicare program. Roger Rousseau, 71, the former medical director for a defunct mental-health clinic operation, was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit health care fraud. Rousseau, who had his first appearance along with the other defendants in federal court, was released on a $375,000 bond. “We don’t think the evidence supports those [...]
Judge Suspicious of Psych’s Records
Star Tribune Records infraction was not first for doctor fired from state mental hospital By PAUL MCENROE April 13, 2013 Minnesota Security Hospital Complex in St. Peter, Minn. A psychiatrist who was fired this year for failing to properly document patient care at the Minnesota Security Hospital had been forced to resign in 2005 for exactly the same violation — yet was later rehired by the state and spent three years treating patients at regional mental health hospitals. The psychiatrist, Dr. Edward L. Kelly, returned to work for the state in 2009 to practice in the Community Behavioral [...]
Judge Gives a Call to a Florida Psychiatrist’s Office
CBS Miami CBS4 Investigates: Prescriptions In DUI Case Called “Illegal” By Gary Nelson March 14, 2013 Sandor Guillen is charged with DUI manslaughter, but his case may spawn a second investigation into how he came to possess prescription drugs. A CBS4 News investigation shows a Broward county physician and nurse practitioner may have violated state and federal law in the way they provided Guillen with Adderall, a psycho-stimulant containing amphetamine. Guillen, who was on house arrest, was jailed for four days after testing positive for the controlled drug Friday, and was unable to provide specifics of how he got it. [...]
Weston psychiatrist Mark Willner gets 10 years in federal prison
Sun Sentinel Weston doctor imprisoned for healthcare fraud in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale By Paula McMahon October 1, 2012 A Weston psychiatrist was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $51.9 million in restitution Monday for his role in what prosecutors called "one of the largest and most brazen health care fraud conspiracies in recent memory." Dr. Mark Willner, who practiced in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit health care fraud earlier this year. He has been locked up at the Federal Detention Center in Miami since the [...]
Ohio psychiatrist David Walter Massie accused of prescription fraud
Mansfield News Journal (Ohio) Psychiatrist pleads innocent at arraignment July 7, 2012 By News Journal staff CLEVELAND - A Mansfield psychiatrist accused of prescription fraud pleaded not guilty at his arraignment this afternoon in federal court. David Walter Massie, 59, had a $25,000 signature bond set, meaning he can be freed if he promises to show up in court. Massie was indicted last week on a single count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycontin or oxycodone. Defense attorney Ian Friedman said Massie would be released to a rehabilitation facility Monday. His trial is scheduled for Sept. 4. According to the indictment [...]
15 people arrested in antipsychotic scam
LA TIMES 15 people arrested in Medicare scheme Clinic and pharmacies re-billed the government for anti-psychotic medications, criminal complaint says. By Adolfo Flores, Veronica Rocha and Jason Wells October 27, 2011 | 6:40 p.m. Fifteen people were arrested Thursday on suspicion of taking part in an elaborate $18-million Medicare fraud scheme that officials say involved a Glendale medical clinic and a pharmacy in San Marino. The scheme involved so-called “prescription harvesting,” in which Manor Medical Imaging Clinic and San Gabriel Valley pharmacies allegedly re-billed the government repeatedly for anti-psychotic medications, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. A total [...]
South Florida Psychiatrist Guilty in Medicaid Racket
The Miami Herald South Florida psychiatrist pleads guilty to massive Medicare fraud By JAY WEAVER South Florida psychiatrist Alan Gumer got in near the start of the nation’s largest mental-health clinic racket in 2004, signing bogus medical evaluations to qualify patients for costly group therapy sessions covered by Medicare. “At times,’’ Gumer also “prescribed psychiatric medications to individuals who did not need them to make it appear to Medicare that the patients’’ qualified for treatment, according to federal court documents. On Thursday, Gumer, 64, of Tamarac pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud for his critical role in a massive, $200 million [...]