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States News Service March 29, 2006 Wednesday ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG STUMBO ANNOUNCES PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED FOR OVER BILLING MEDICAID AND MEDICARE BYLINE: States News Service LENGTH: 179 words DATELINE: FRANKFORT, Ky. The following information was released by the Kentucky Attorney General: Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced that Dr. Arthur Daus, a psychiatrist who had been practicing in the Louisville area, was sentenced today in Jefferson Circuit Court for illegally over billing Medicaid and Medicare for multiple office visits even though patients made only single visits. Daus, 71, received a sentence of 1 year, probated for a period of two years on [...]
The Maryland Gazette June 14, 2006 Wednesday News In Brief SECTION: INSIDE; Pg. A3 LENGTH: 669 words Psychiatrist guilty in Medicaid fraud A psychiatrist from Davidsonville has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud, admitting he billed for services he never provided, the Attorney General's Office said. Oparaugo Ihentuge Udebiuwa, 46, whose office was in Baltimore, defrauded Medicaid out of $32,000 in a year. He pleaded guilty Thursday to five misdemeanor counts in Baltimore City Circuit Court and will be sentenced Aug. 8. Each count carries a maximum of three years in prison and a $50,000 fine. In addition to billing for [...]
Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) May 18, 2006 Thursday THREE EDITION FORMER PSYCHIATRIST GETS A YEAR IN PRISON; FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD, HE ALSO MUST REPAY INSURANCE COMPANIES BYLINE: KAREN GARLOCH, KGARLOCH@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM SECTION: METRO; Pg. 5B LENGTH: 214 words Former Charlotte psychiatrist Warren H. Williams was sentenced this week to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud and illegal distribution of a controlled substance without a medical purpose. U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad Jr. ordered Williams to be placed in a substance abuse program and to surrender his license to practice medicine and [...]
Maureen Adair
Austin American-Statesman (Texas) November 10, 2010 Wednesday Final Edition State board disciplines 6 Austin doctors BYLINE: Mary Ann Roser AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF SECTION: METRO; Pg. B03 LENGTH: 460 words Six Austin doctors were among 77 disciplined by the Texas Medical Board, including one who surrendered his license to practice internal medicine. Dr. Michael Bowen Pickrell was ordered by the board in May 2009 to be monitored by another doctor, take part in the board's drug testing program and be treated by a psychiatrist after the board said he improperly prescribed narcotics to some patients and self-medicated for depression and "steroid psychosis," [...]
The Dallas Morning News (Texas) Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News November 18, 2010 Thursday Doctors disciplined by Texas earn money from drug firms, records show BYLINE: Ryan Mcneill and Marina Trahan Martinez, The Dallas Morning News SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS LENGTH: 2086 words Nov. 18--The 33-year-old woman suffered from bulimia, anorexia and drug addiction. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Wayne C. Jones of Richardson, prescribed stimulants, antidepressants, anti-psychotics and a drug used to treat a thyroid condition. After the woman died of an overdose, a suicide, the Texas Medical Board found in 2000 that Jones "failed to thoroughly document his rationale [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire October 13, 2004, Wednesday, BC cycle State board suspends psychiatrist's license, imposes fine SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 128 words DATELINE: DAVENPORT, Iowa The Iowa Board of Medical Examiners has suspended indefinitely the license of a psychiatrist who authorities say had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a patient. The state board also fined Dr. Sridhar Yaratha, 34, $10,000. Yaratha, who entered into a settlement agreement with the board, also was disciplined in August by officials in West Virginia for the relationship, records show. The Iowa board filed charges against Yaratha in February. The [...]
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS December 15, 1994, Thursday, HOME FINAL EDITION Jury finds psychiatrist liable in slander suit $ 350,000 awarded for child abuse allegations BYLINE: Tracy Everbach, Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 41A LENGTH: 485 words A psychiatrist accused of telling a woman's children that the woman had been sexually abused by her parents - a story the woman later recanted - should pay the parents $ 350,000 for slander, a Dallas County jury decided this week. The parents, LaVerne and Edward Khatain of Seattle, alleged in a lawsuit that Dr. Wayne Jones of [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire October 11, 2004, Monday, BC cycle State debates whether to prosecute doctors' old misconduct cases SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 299 words DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The state is looking into several psychiatrist misconduct cases, years after the doctors were disciplined by the state but never referred for criminal prosecution. Under Florida law, state boards or departments are required to report cases of criminal misconduct to prosecutors. In at least two of the cases in question, the psychiatrists' practices were restricted by the state, but prosecution was not considered. A unit in the Department [...]
Associated Press Online October 8, 2004 Friday Man Allegedly Pays Ticket With Foul Bills SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS LENGTH: 167 words DATELINE: BURLINGTON, Iowa A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollar bills used to pay a parking ticket has been charged with harassment of a public official. Ronald Preston McPike, 52, was arrested Sept. 30 at his office in Burlington. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, a misdemeanor, and was released on $125 bond pending a Dec. 8 court appearance. Officers received an envelope in July labeled "Foreign brown substance on bills." The envelope contained several dollar bills [...]
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) September 19, 2000, Tuesday, 0 South Pinellas Edition Case closed BYLINE: KATHERINE GAZELLA SECTION: FLORIDIAN; Pg. 1D The accused was a psychiatrist. The strangling victim, his former patient and lover, prosecutors said. When Dr. Louis Tsavaris died last week, he was still trying to erase the stain of the conviction. Considering that the charge was murder in the first degree, the prosecutor found it odd that the defendant kept approaching him during breaks in the trial. But this was no ordinary defendant. "You're trying to put me in the electric chair," Dr. Louis J. Tsavaris told [...]