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Monterey County Herald (California) December 23, 2009 Wednesday Doctor takes plea deal in prison overbilling BYLINE: By JIM JOHNSON Herald Salinas Bureau SECTION: LOCAL LENGTH: 561 words A Santa Cruz psychiatrist pleaded no contest Tuesday to falsifying his time card at Salinas Valley State Prison in a scheme to overbill for his services. Dr. David Hoban agreed to plead to the felony charge as part of a deal that allowed him to avoid a grand theft charge and instead be sentenced to community service and restitution. As part of the deal, Hoban wrote out a check for $44,445 in court [...]
The Virginian-Pilot(Norfolk, VA.) May 25, 2006 Thursday The Virginian-Pilot Edition Former Beach psychiatrist gets 3½-year term in drug, fraud case BYLINE: AMY JETER SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. B4 LENGTH: 409 words DATELINE: NORFOLK BY AMY JETER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT NORFOLK -- A former Virginia Beach psychiatrist was sentenced Wednesday to 3½ years in federal prison for unlawfully distributing prescription narcotics and improperly billing Medicaid. Jeremy A. Stowell, 64, had pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing OxyContin, methadone and vicoprofen and to charging Medicaid, including for some patient visits that never occurred. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson ordered Stowell to pay a $20,000 fine [...]
Francesco DiLeo
The Washington Post January 10, 1988, Sunday, Final Edition Licenses Valid Despite Crimes; Many Convicted Doctors Given Probation by Panel BYLINE: Susan Schmidt, Washington Post Staff Writer SECTION: FIRST SECTION; PAGE A17 LENGTH: 698 words More than 35 Maryland doctors in the past two decades have been convicted of sex crimes, drug charges, theft, Medicaid fraud and other criminal violations without losing their rights to practice medicine. Thirteen doctors in all, nearly half of them psychiatrists, have been disciplined for criminal or unethical sexual activity during the past two decades, according to commission records. One was suspended for five years. [...]
Psychiatrist Gregory Villabona, Dover, Delaware – sexually abused two girls, kept unlicensed guns in his office, repeatedly prescribed in a careless manner
New York Post Perv psychiatrist finally loses license over sex with patients By Associated Press March 6, 2019 Psychiatrist Gregory VillaBona DOVER, Delaware — A Delaware psychiatrist has lost his medical license after being accused of having sex with his patients, keeping unlicensed guns in his office and repeatedly prescribing drugs in a careless manner in the years since he sexually abused two girls. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline revoked the license of Gregory Villabona on Tuesday, ending more than 15 years of efforts to contain alleged professional misconduct. Villabona’s [...]
The Boston Herald March 22, 1997 Saturday ALL EDITIONS NEWS IN BRIEF; 2 psych docs' licenses KO'd SECTION: NEWS; Pg. C47 LENGTH: 132 words The licenses of two psychiatrists have been revoked by the state Board of Registration in Medicine for alleged abuses of their physician privileges, the board announced yesterday. Dr. Reinaldo de los Heros, a psychiatrist and neurologist from Lawrence, was convicted for overbilling his patients by $ 245,000. The board also found that de los Heros repeatedly violated state law by giving his staff signed but otherwise blank prescriptions. Also on March 12, the board suspended the [...]
Eureka Times Standard (California) October 25, 2006 Wednesday Eureka doctor has license revoked BYLINE: The Times-Standard SECTION: LOCAL; News LENGTH: 191 words A Eureka psychiatrist has had his license revoked by the Medical Board of California. The Medical Board's fall newsletter lists Dr. Paul Organ among the doctors facing administrative actions between May 1 and July 31 of this year. His license was revoked on May 5, the newsletter states. The medical board states that Organ "violated the terms and conditions of a board-ordered probation by testing positive for the use of controlled substances and failing to successfully complete the [...]
Austin American-Statesman (Texas) September 14, 2011 Wednesday Final Edition 3 Austin doctors disciplined by Texas Medical Board BYLINE: Mary Ann Roser AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF SECTION: METRO; Pg. B03 LENGTH: 435 words Three Austin doctors were among 108 disciplined recently by the Texas Medical Board, including a psychiatrist who was fined $20,000 after the board said he improperly wrote prescriptions and performed an evaluation on a longtime patient's wife that got used against her in court. The board accused David Williams Cardwell, 63, of failing to get consent from the patient's wife for the evaluation when she came to Cardwell's office in [...]
Khristine Eroshevich
The Associated Press April 3, 2012 Tuesday 02:52 AM GMT Beverly Hills psychiatrist has license suspended SECTION: ENTERTAINMENT NEWS LENGTH: 307 words DATELINE: LOS ANGELES State medical board officials say a Beverly Hills psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole Smith has had her license suspended for a criminal conviction involving the Playboy Playmate. The March 30 decision by the Medical Board of California did not name any patients in the case against Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, but the filing listed the court number of the Smith case. Eroshevich's license was revoked, but the revocation was stayed. Instead, Eroshevich's license will be suspended [...]
States News Service January 4, 2007 Thursday COX ANNOUNCES SUMMARY SUSPENSION OF PSYCHIATRIST'S MEDICAL LICENSE BYLINE: States News Service LENGTH: 294 words DATELINE: LANSING, Mich. The following information was released by the Michigan Attorney General: Attorney General Mike Cox announced today that the medical license of Farmington Hills psychiatrist Albert Bayer, M.D., has been summarily suspended by the Board of Medicine amid allegations that he engaged in a long-term sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient to whom he also over-prescribed psychotropic and narcotic medications. "It is disturbing that a doctor would abuse the trust of patients who seek his medical [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Florida) September 23, 1994 Friday, CENTRAL FLORIDA FAXING PSYCHIATRIST GUILTY OF HARASSING BLACK PEOPLE SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A8 LENGTH: 106 words DATELINE: PITTSBURGH A psychiatrist who sent anonymous faxes to black groups and individuals with messages such as "Happy James Earl Ray Day" has been convicted of harassment. Dr. Ernest Hendrickson was found guilty of 36 counts Wednesday. Each count is punishable by six months to a year in jail. Prosecutors said the messages were sent to specific targets, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann and [...]
United Press International August 17, 1994, Wednesday, BC cycle Ex-patient says he was doctor's 'slave' SECTION: Domestic News LENGTH: 271 words DATELINE: BOSTON, Aug. 17 A former patient of a Massachusetts psychiatrist who recently had her license suspended by state regulators says she used him as a virtual ''slave'' while he lived in her suburban Boston apartment last year. The unidentified man told the Boston Herald Wednesday that Dr. Suzanne King also used another ex-patient as a ''sex slave'' in a desperate bid to get pregnant. King, 42, of Brookline, Mass., was suspended last week by the state Board of [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire August 5, 1999, Thursday, AM cycle State medical board disciplines four doctors SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 447 words DATELINE: BOSTON The state Board of Registration in Medicine has taken disciplinary action against four doctors - including a psychiatrist who proposed to a patient and an internist who asked explicit sexual questions while conducting a pelvic exam, the board said Thursday. At its July 28 meeting, the board revoked the license of Dr. Edward E. Gilmour, a psychiatrist currently living in New Mexico. The board found that he had crossed the line physically, [...]
The Boston Globe September 2, 2004, Thursday THIRD EDITION STATE FINES PSYCHIATRIST, SUSPENDS LICENSE SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B2 LENGTH: 125 words State medical regulators indefinitely suspended the license of a Newton psychiatrist and fined her $2,500 yesterday for improperly obtaining confidential medical records of a patient. The patient had alleged that the psychiatrist's husband, a neurologist, had inappropriately touched her. Investigators found that Dr. Deborah A. Sichel obtained the woman's records from Newton-Wellesley Hospital in 2001 "in an attempt to discredit the patient's complaint" about her husband to the Board of Registration in Medicine. Board director Nancy Achin Audesse called [...]
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) April 22, 2005 Friday City Edition Suspended Weymouth psychiatrist gives up his license BYLINE: Sue Reinert SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9 LENGTH: 582 words The Patriot Ledger A Weymouth psychiatrist who last year agreed to a suspension for practicing while impaired by alcohol has now resigned his license, state regulators said. Dr. Lee Chartock's resignation means he is permanently barred from practicing medicine, the Board of Registration in Medicine said. The resignation is considered a disciplinary action, the board said. In his resignation letter, Chartock said he is not licensed anywhere else and will not seek [...]
Domingo Cerra-Fernandez, Ocala Psychiatrist, Suspended by State, now one of 30 highest paid state employees
Miami Herald Psychiatrist suspended for ‘inappropriate relationship.’ He got a $196K state job. By Steve Contorno and Lawrence Mower February 28, 2019 Psychiatrist Domingo Cerra-Fernandez TALLAHASSEE - Less than a year ago, Domingo Cerra Fernandez was suspended from practicing medicine in Florida. He still can’t in New York. The Ocala psychiatrist allegedly committed one of the cardinal sins of his discipline: He propositioned a patient to have a sexual and romantic relationship with him. He then continued to treat her. But just months after his Florida suspension ended, Cerra Fernandez has a new job. He’s a senior physician at [...]
Hugh Castell
The Seattle Times EASTSIDE JOURNAL -- PSYCHIATRIST DISCIPLINED By Nancy Montgomery March 17, 1994 Psychiatrist disciplined: A Bellevue psychiatrist must videotape all sessions with female patients in order to maintain his practice after the state Medical Disciplinary Board said he had improper sexual relationships with three patients. Dr. Hugh Castell agreed to the board's order several months ago rather than face a hearing that could have resulted in a suspension of his medical license. He also was fined $ 2,000, ordered to have female patients sign notices that they'd seen the restrictions imposed on his practice, provide a copy of [...]
Paul Lowinger – Psychiatrist Sentenced In Sex Case
The San Francisco Chronicle EAST BAY Psychiatrist Sentenced In Sex Case FEBRUARY 3, 1993 Oakland -- A psychiatrist who was found guilty of prescribing medication in exchange for sex was sentenced yesterday to one year in Alameda County Jail and fined $ 15,000. Paul Lowinger, 69, who had offices in Oakland and San Francisco, was arrested after a seven- month investigation by the state attorney general revealed that he had billed Medi-Cal for psychotherapy sessions during which he had sex with at least five patients. Lowinger pleaded no contest in November to felony grand theft, filing false Medi-Cal claims, issuing [...]
Justice Department Documents and Publications January 6, 2012 Former Texas Pain Management Physician and Psychiatrist Sentenced to Federal Prison on Health Care Fraud Charges SECTION: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION PRESS RELEASES LENGTH: 566 words Former Texas Pain Management Physician and Psychiatrist Sentenced to Federal Prison on Health Care Fraud Charges U.S. Attorney's Office January 6, 2012 *Western District of Texas (210) 384-7100 United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that in El Paso today, 57-year-old Anthony Francis Valdez was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release in connection with an estimated $42 million fraudulent [...]
The Associated Press January 25, 2010 Monday 11:17 PM GMT Mass. psychiatrist testifies in mom-overdose trial BYLINE: By DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS LENGTH: 726 words DATELINE: BROCKTON, Mass. A psychiatrist for a 4-year-old girl whose mother is accused of giving her a fatal prescription drug overdose acknowledged Monday that she repeatedly increased the dosages after the mother reported the girl was aggressive and had trouble sleeping. Dr. Kayoko Kifuji, testifying at Carolyn Riley's murder trial under a grant of immunity from prosecutors, said she diagnosed Rebecca Riley with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder after meeting her once [...]
Stuart Brown
Los Angeles Times October 29, 1988, Saturday, San Diego County Edition MORE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CHARGES LEVELED AGAINST LA JOLLA PSYCHIATRIST BYLINE: By LINDA ROACH MONROE, Times Staff Writer SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Column 1; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1010 words A La Jolla psychiatrist has been accused by the state Board of Medical Quality Assurance of three more instances of incompetence and negligence because of alleged sexual misconduct with women who went to him for psychiatric help. Instead of helping them, the charges say, Dr. Stuart L. Brown concentrated during therapy sessions on talking about his personal problems, expressing [...]
The New York Times June 28, 1996, Friday, Late Edition - Final Park Ave. Doctor Is Arrested in Sale of Tranquilizer Prescriptions BYLINE: By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER SECTION: Section B; Page 8; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 482 words A psychiatrist supposedly known as Dr. Cash to clients who lined up by the dozens outside his Park Avenue office, often drinking beer from cans in paper bags, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in an undercover operation and charged with selling prescriptions for a controlled substance, the tranquilizer Xanax. The psychiatrist, identified by the State Attorney General's office as Mark M. [...]
James Tashjian
PR Newswire December 16, 1988, Friday PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED FOR BCBSM CLAIM FRAUD DETROIT, Dec. 16 /PRN/ -- A former Oakland County psychiatrist has been sentenced to two year's probation and ordered to repay Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) $6,000 for filing fradulent health-care claims. James Tashjian, M.D., 46, was convicted in a jury trial last month on charges brought in 1983, following a lengthy investigation by BCBSM, Michigan State Police and the Oakland County prosecutor's office. Also sentenced on Monday was Dr. Tashjian's billing clerk, Joyce Thomison. She was given two year's probation and fined $600 in [...]
Lionel Schwartz
The Boston Globe Therapist accused of sex abuse resigns license By Alison Bass and Judy Foreman April 4, 1989 On the eve of a public hearing on complaints that he sexually abused three female patients, Dr. Lionel A. Schwartz, a psychiatrist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, last night gave up his license to practice medicine in Massachusetts. Schwartz, 66, who sent a copy of his resignation to the Globe, said he wants his resignation to become effective May 15 to allow him time to terminate with patients he is currently seeing and refer them to other therapists. [...]