MEDIA
The Associated Press State & Local Wire August 14, 2002, Wednesday, BC cycle Doctor who charged Medicare for puppet shows sentenced to prison SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 1213 words DATELINE: KANSAS CITY, Mo. A psychiatrist who illegally billed the federal Medicare program for puppet and magic shows was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison. Daniel F. Ward, 57, also received three years of supervised release, including five months of home detention, as part of his sentence, issued by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs. Ward must also pay $49,944.01 in restitution. Ward has surrendered his license to practice [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire April 17, 2012 Tuesday 5:46 PM GMT Honolulu doctor indicted on federal drug charges SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 154 words DATELINE: HONOLULU A Honolulu psychiatrist is accused of improperly prescribing large quantities of powerful pain medication and other drugs to law enforcement officers. A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Dr. Shepard Ginandes. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (http://bit.ly/HQxn1c ) reported Tuesday he's charged with 22 counts of distributing methadone, morphine, oxycodone and other drugs outside the course of professional medical practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. The Drug Enforcement Administration [...]
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution August 12, 1998, Wednesday, ALL EDITIONS Doctor pleads guilty in scam; Medicaid taken for $ 6.6 million BYLINE: Bill Rankin SECTION: LOCAL NEWS; Pg. 01D; Pg. 01D LENGTH: 413 words A psychiatrist who bilked the state out of millions of dollars by charging for unprovided medical services for impoverished Atlanta children pleaded guilty Tuesday. James McClendon, 49, admitted to conspiring to defraud the state in one of the biggest Medicaid scams in Georgia history: $ 6.6 million. For illegally targeting impoverished Atlanta children and billing for medical services that were never provided, McClendon will be [...]
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) January 25, 1996 Thursday METRO FINAL EDITION 2ND PATIENT WINS AGAINST PSYCHIATRIST; ACCUSATION OF PLANTING MEMORIES BRINGS MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR VERDICT BYLINE: BYLINE: Molly Guthrey and Tracey Kaplan, Staff Writers SECTION: METRO; Pg. 1B LENGTH: 689 words A three-month psychiatric malpractice trial in Ramsey County - one in a string of lawsuits against a St. Paul psychiatrist being watched closely by health professionals across the nation - ended Wednesday with a jury award of $2.5 million to one of the doctor's former patients. It is the second such multimillion-dollar award in a year against St. Paul psychiatrist [...]
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) August 1, 1995 Tuesday METRO FINAL EDITION PATIENT WINS $2.4 MILLION VERDICT AGAINST THERAPIST; DOCTOR WAS ACCUSED OF PLANTING MEMORIES BYLINE: BYLINE: MOLLY GUTHREY, Staff Writer SECTION: MAIN; Pg. 1A LENGTH: 792 words In a first-of-its-kind case that attracted nationwide attention, a Ramsey County jury awarded more than $2 million to a patient who accused her psychiatrist of implanting in her mind false memories of bizarre childhood sexual abuse. The six jurors, after deliberating for about two days, ruled that Dr. Diane Humenansky was negligent in treating her patient, Vynnette Hamanne. They then awarded Hamanne [...]
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) February 7, 1997 Friday CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHIATRIST IS SUSPENDED; DIANE HUMENANSKY WAS SUED IN FAMOUS 'FALSE MEMORY' CASES BYLINE: Tom Majeski, Staff Writer SECTION: MAIN; Pg. 1B LENGTH: 684 words Diane Bay Humenansky, the controversial St. Paul psychiatrist who was successfully sued by two former patients for planting false memories during therapy sessions, has had her medical license suspended for at least three years, the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice announced Thursday. Humenansky, 61, was disciplined for unprofessional and unethical conduct and because of her inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients [...]
Portland Press Herald (Maine) September 11, 2002 Wednesday, Final Edition EMBATTLED PSYCHIATRIST AGREES TO HALT PRACTICE; Dr. Charles Clemetson, who treated children, had been suspended by the state after concerns he had a substance-abuse problem. BYLINE: JOSIE HUANG Staff Writer SECTION: LOCAL & STATE; Pg. 2B LENGTH: 366 words DATELINE: AUGUSTA A Yarmouth child psychiatrist who drew national attention for filing an unusual lawsuit against Alaska Airlines agreed on Tuesday not to practice medicine in Maine. Dr. Charles Clemetson - whom state regulators say has an undiagnosed psychiatric condition, a substance abuse problem, or both - signed a consent agreement [...]
Poughkeepsie Journal (Poughkeepsie, NY) June 12, 2002 Wednesday VA doctor to fight proposed suspension BYLINE: Elizabeth Lynch SECTION: MID-HUDSON; Pg. 2B LENGTH: 404 words A doctor at the Montrose campus of the federal Department of Veterans Affairs faces suspension for what he says is retaliation for speaking out against the administration. Dr. William C. Bowens, a psychiatrist at the Hudson Valley Health Care System's FDR campus in Westchester County, received a letter proposing he be suspended for three days for failure to carry out instructions and dereliction of duty. Bowens was quoted in a newspaper article Sunday criticizing the administration's [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The Associated Press May 20, 2000, Saturday, BC cycle Psychiatrist in DWI murder trial loses license because of alcohol abuse SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 459 words DATELINE: RALEIGH A psychiatrist who testified in the trial of a man convicted of first-degree murder after a fatal drunken-driving crash has lost his medical license because of alcohol abuse. The North Carolina Medical Board last month indefinitely suspended the license of William Frederick Mackey Jr. of Chapel Hill. In a March hearing during [...]
The Baltimore Sun November 23, 2010 Tuesday FINAL EDITION BBH HIRED PHYSICIAN CONVICTED OF FRAUD; SUN FOLLOW-UP; OSTROVSKY AMONG 8 DOCTORS AT CLINIC WHO WERE SUBJECT TO MARYLAND DISCIPLINARY ACTION BYLINE: Scott Calvert, The Baltimore Sun SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. 1A LENGTH: 1974 words Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. is under investigation by the state's health inspector general for employing a psychiatrist who had been convicted several years earlier of Medicaid fraud. The doctor, Roman Ostrovsky, 53, is one of eight physicians employed by the nonprofit mental health clinic over the past decade who have been disciplined by the Maryland Board of [...]