MEDIA
Nan Beth Alt
States News Service August 30, 2012 Thursday SCHUETTE CHARGES FATHER-DAUGHTER DUO WITH HEALTH CARE FRAUD COSTING TAXPAYERS OVER $273,000 BYLINE: States News Service LENGTH: 575 words DATELINE: LANSING, Mich. The following information was released by the office of the Michigan Attorney General: Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced 106 combined felony charges against a father-daughter duo who are accused of engaging in a health care fraud scheme costing taxpayers more than $273,000 after the cardiologist father had his medical license suspended for incompetence and began billing for patients as if they had been treated by his daughter - a [...]
Springfield News-Leader (Missouri) August 31, 2012 Friday Disciplined Springfield psychiatrist retires BYLINE: By, Sarah Okeson SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 346 words SOKESON@NEWS-LEADER.COM A Springfield psychiatrist who was previously disciplined by state regulators has retired. Floyd D. Simpson, who was facing further discipline from the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, agreed Monday that he won't reapply for a license for more than two years. Simpson, who got his license in 1988, retired after telling the board that he didn't intend to comply with the terms of his probation. In February, the board put his license on probation for 10 [...]
Chicago Daily Herald July 1, 2006 Saturday DuPage Edition SECTION: NEWS; DuPage County in 60 seconds; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 468 words Psychiatrist accused of fraud: A Downers Grove man who was medical director of the now- shuttered Rock Creek Center in Lemont has been accused of defrauding Medicare of more than $875,000 by billing for services he never performed or submitting claims that were more expensive than the services he actually provided. Naseem Chaudhry, 49, was charged with 14 counts of health-care fraud in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced Friday in Chicago. [...]
Donald Hughes
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas) September 8, 2006 Friday Doctor loses license over sexual contact BYLINE: JAN JARVIS, STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER SECTION: B; Pg. 12 LENGTH: 895 words EDITOR'S NOTE: The names of several doctors were inadvertently omitted from this article published Thursday about seven Tarrant County physicians who were disciplined by the State Medical Board. Here is the full article. The state medical board has revoked the license of Arlington psychiatrist Donald Hughes, who in 2004 was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with three young patients. Hughes, who practiced in several Arlington locations and the Texarkana area, was also ordered [...]
Tulsa World (Oklahoma) August 20, 2006 Sunday Final Home Edition Psychiatrist: In Court: DHS steps in for wife, records say BYLINE: ZIVA BRANSTETTER World Projects Editor SECTION: News; Tulsa; Crime; Pg. A1 LENGTH: 1173 words A Tulsa psychiatrist who used psychotropic medicine to drug his wife -- once a prominent faith healer and evangelist -- has been jailed, ordered to wear an ankle monitor and told to stay half a mile away from the woman, records show. The bizarre court case involving Dr. Carl R. Peterson and his wife, Martha "Vicki" Peterson, began a year ago, when the Department of [...]
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) September 3, 2006 Sunday FINAL EDITION ITHACA DOCTOR SURRENDERS HIS MEDICAL LICENSE; CHARGES AGAINST PSYCHIATRIST MICHAEL R. GLASS INCLUDE TOUCHING PATIENT SEXUALLY. BYLINE: By James T. Mulder Staff writer SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. B2 LENGTH: 269 words An Ithaca psychiatrist accused of hugging and kissing a patient last year has turned in his medical license. Dr. Michael R. Glass, 63, of 1345 Slaterville Road, surrendered his license to settle charges that he had physical contact of a sexual nature with a patient, according to the state Board for Professional Medical Conduct. Glass practiced homeopathy, an alternative [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The Associated Press January 5, 2006, Thursday, BC cycle North Dakota medical board bars Minnesota doctor SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 195 words DATELINE: BISMARCK, N.D. The state's medical watchdog panel has barred a Minnesota doctor from practicing medicine in North Dakota. The state Board of Medical Examiners said it permanently suspended the license of Dr. Edwin Johnson, a psychiatrist, for having sex with a patient. Johnson, 54, of Pelican Rapids, Minn., had a sexual relationship with a patient between 2001 [...]
Indianapolis Business Journal July 3, 2006 Doctor takes on state over Medicaid payments; Psychiatrist claims he's being forced out of business BYLINE: TOM MURPHY TMURPHY@IBJ.COM SECTION: Vol. 27; No. 17; Pg. 5 LENGTH: 711 words A Franklin psychiatrist has accused the state agency that runs Medicaid of suffocating his practice in a reimbursement dispute that dates back more than a year. Dr. John Lewis said the weekly Medicaid checks that keep his Harmony Center open dwindled to nothing for four straight weeks after he filed a lawsuit in April against the state Family and Social Services Administration over a payment [...]
The Press Enterprise March 31, 2012, Saturday EX-COUNTY PSYCHIATRIST ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE BYLINE: RICHARD K. DE ATLEY STAFF WRITER RDEATLEY@PE.COM SECTION: MAINNEWS; Pg. A2 LENGTH: 521 words A psychiatrist who worked briefly for the Riverside County Mental Health Department has been accused by the California Medical Board of sexual abuse and misconduct with a patient. It is the second such case against a physician working for the county mental health department filed since November. The latest accusation, filed in late February, said Dr. Hozair Syed made inappropriate contact with a 19-year-old woman he was treating for depression beginning in [...]
The Gazette March 31, 2012 Saturday UI insurer argues it shouldn't have to defend psychiatrist BYLINE: Vanessa Miller, THE GAZETTE SECTION: Pg. 5A LENGTH: 453 words IOWA CITY -- The insurance company formed to provide malpractice coverage for University of Iowa physicians has filed a lawsuit arguing it should not be required to provide any defense or security for a UI Hospitals and Clinics physician accused of having a sexual relationship with a former patient. Sergio Paradiso, a 49-year-old UIHC psychiatrist and associate professor, was sued last year on several counts including sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. [...]