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Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) January 16, 2006 Monday Iowa; Metro; Midlands; Nebraska; Sunrise Editions States discipline medical workers BYLINE: Nichole Aksamit, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 04B LENGTH: 675 words According to recently released documents, officials with the Nebraska Health and Human Services System issued the following allegations and disciplinary actions against medical professionals licensed in Nebraska: Suspended Martell nurse Michael Ament for six months for habitual intoxication and working under the influence of alcohol at a hospice he co-owned. Revoked the license of Lincoln psychiatrist Dr. Paulo Bahr for providing substandard care to four psychiatric patients and failing to [...]
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) February 18, 2006 Saturday Correction Appended 4 State / Suncoast Edition Docent at Dali denies sex past BYLINE: JAMIE THOMPSON SECTION: METRO & STATE; Pg. 1B LENGTH: 611 words DATELINE: ST. PETERSBURG A volunteer docent at the Dali Museum who sometimes works with young students is a former child psychiatrist whose medical license was revoked in three states amid allegations he had sexual contact with children. Museum director Hank Hine said Friday he would likely dismiss the man if the allegations were true. "We put children first," Hine said. Volunteer Donald Rife, who is 80 and [...]
Asbury Park Press (New Jersey) February 9, 2006 Thursday Feds charge doctor, say he filled 'hundreds of unlawful prescriptions' BYLINE: A. SCOTT FERGUSON/STAFF WRITER SECTION: B; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 358 words A former Ocean County geriatric psychiatrist faces federal drug charges after a grand jury indicted him for distributing hundreds of illegal prescriptions for painkillers during a five-year period. Dr. James M. Stanch, 53, was arrested at his brother's Haddon Township, Camden County, home Wednesday by federal authorities. A federal grand jury had indicted Stanch last week on charges of distribution and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, conspiracy and [...]
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 [...]
The Philadelphia Inquirer SEPTEMBER 14, 2000 Thursday SFCITY EDITION CHESCO DOCTOR'S LICENSE REVOKED PSYCHIATRIST BYRON S. BRAID INJECTED AN UNTESTED DRUG, AUTHORITIES SAID. HE STILL FACES SEX-ABUSE LAWSUITS. BYLINE: Shankar Vedantam, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER SECTION: CITY & REGION; Pg. B01 LENGTH: 434 words The Pennsylvania Board of Medicine has revoked the license of Chester County psychiatrist Byron S. Braid on the grounds that he injected patients with an unapproved drug and committed other violations of proper medical practice. In a statement issued yesterday after a meeting in Erie, the board ordered Braid, who has addresses in Pocopson and Chadds Ford, [...]
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) December 10, 1996, Tuesday, 1 North Pinellas Edition Psychiatrist faces sex charges SECTION: METRO & STATE; Pg. 3B LENGTH: 215 words DATELINE: LARGO A Clearwater psychiatrist whose medical license was restricted in October was arrested Monday on sex charges. Pinellas County Jail records say Richard Morales, 45, of 1261 11th St. SW, Largo was charged with two counts of sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist. He also was charged with battery on a firefighter. He was released from jail on $ 65,000 bail. Attempts to contact him Monday night were unsuccessful. Details of the criminal sexual misconduct [...]
Anchorage Daily News (Alaska) October 27, 2004 Wednesday, STATE EDITION Alaska Digest SECTION: ALASKA; Pg. B3 LENGTH: 805 words ANCHORAGE Psychiatrist's medical license is revoked for unprofessional conduct The Alaska State Medical Board revoked the medical license for Dr. Michael Bernzott at its meeting last week. The state Division of Occupational Licensing had filed an accusation against Bernzott, an Alaska psychiatrist since 1985, saying he showed a lack of concern for a patient's well-being and engaged in unprofessional conduct. During a 1995 treatment meeting at North Star Hospital, Bernzott removed a concealed handgun from a holster he was wearing and [...]
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) November 24, 2005 Thursday FINAL Edition MILL VALLEY; State board suspends psychiatrist's license BYLINE: Steve Rubenstein SECTION: BAY AREA; BAY AREA DIGEST; Pg. B5 LENGTH: 161 words The license of a Mill Valley psychiatrist has been suspended after state investigators said he had been improperly involved in a business partnership with one of his patients, the state Medical Board said. An administrative law judge on Friday suspended the license of Dr. Michael Dietrick, 62, a spokeswoman for the Medical Board said. The board alleged that Dietrick "repeatedly and egregiously violated the boundaries of (the) therapeutic [...]
The Reporter (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) November 10, 2005 Thursday FdL psychiatrist has license suspended for link to inmate death BYLINE: By C. M. Schmidlkofer, the reporter cschmidl@fdlreporter.com SECTION: Pg. 1A LENGTH: 365 words The medical license of a Fond du Lac psychiatrist has been temporarily restricted by the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board after he was linked to the death of an inmate at Waupun Correctional Institution. The board reprimanded Yogesh Pareek, 40, of 526 Ledgewood Drive, last month after reviewing a March 11, 2003, judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The judgment found [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The Associated Press November 7, 2005, Monday, BC cycle British psychiatrist accused of plagiarizing from Md. professor SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 349 words DATELINE: LONDON The employers of leading British psychiatrist Raj Persaud said Monday they were reviewing claims that he plagiarized portions of an article written by an American academic for a piece of his own. The British journal "Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry," which published Persaud's article in February, retracted it in its September issue, saying that "a [...]
Grand Rapid Press (Michigan) October 21, 2005 Friday ALL S EDITION Psychiatrist accused of criminal sexual conduct SECTION: STATE; Pg. B6 LENGTH: 235 words MUSKEGON -- A local Michigan Department of Community Mental Health psychiatrist assigned to the Brooks Correctional Facility is accused of sexually touching an inmate and writing him sexually explicit letters. Rafael Combalecer, 63, of Grand Rapids, was arraigned Thursday in Muskegon County's 60th District Court on a charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. A preliminary examination is set for Nov. 2. His $15,000 bond was continued. The charge stems from Combalecer's alleged contact with a Brooks [...]
Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) December 12, 1996 Thursday ONE & TWO EDITION STATE BOARD DISCIPLINES 3 DOCTORS FOR MISCONDUCT BYLINE: KAREN GARLOCH, Staff Writer SECTION: METRO; Pg. 4C LENGTH: 546 words Three N.C. physicians have been disciplined by the state medical board for sexual misconduct with patients. One, Dr. George Andrinopoulos, is a Charlotte obstetrician/gynecologist. The other two, neurologist Martin Hatcher and psychiatrist Robert Wangelin, are from Greensboro. All but Hatcher signed consent orders with the board, agreeing to suspensions or restrictions on their licenses to practice medicine. Signing a consent order enables the doctors to avoid public disciplinary hearings. [...]
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) September 10, 1997, Wednesday, 0 South Pinellas Edition Psychiatrist accused of misconduct SECTION: CITY & STATE; BRIEFLY; Pg. 3B LENGTH: 136 words DATELINE: LARGO A Pinellas County psychiatrist whose medical license was restricted last year was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexual misconduct. Richard Morales, 46, of 12130 75th St. N in Largo, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday and held in lieu of $ 200,000 bail. Prosecutors filed charges against him on Monday; details of the case were not available. In December, Morales was charged with two counts of sexual misconduct by [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 11, 2007 Thursday 11:32 PM GMT Jackson psychiatrist accused of fraud pays settlement SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 135 words DATELINE: JACKSON Miss. A Jackson psychiatrist has agreed to pay $216,000 to settle allegations of Medicare and Medicaid fraud after a multiyear investigation concluded. The U.S. Attorney's Office alleges that Dr. Viacin Faeza Jones misused billing codes and billed Medicare and Medicaid for excessive numbers of patients per day. A U.S. Department of Justice release said that Jones billed for treating up to 116 patients in a single day and was paid [...]
The Washington Times December 11, 2006 Monday Doctor faces federal charges; Medicaid drug claims probed BYLINE: By Jim McElhatton, THE WASHINGTON TIMES SECTION: METROPOLITAN; Pg. B01 LENGTH: 402 words A District-based psychiatrist whose license recently was suspended over drug possession now faces criminal charges stemming from a federal probe into his handling of Medicaid claims. Federal prosecutors say Dr. David T. Hackney used phony Medicaid claims to buy narcotic painkillers such as oxycodone. According to charging documents, Dr. Hackney wrote prescriptions for large numbers of painkillers using patients' Medicaid or Medicare information, picked up the drugs and never delivered them [...]
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) December 9, 2006 Saturday Final Edition Psychiatrist jailed for endangerment; Dr. Luttrell also charged in Fayette County with illegal possession of firearm BYLINE: Shirley Downing downing@yourappeal.com SECTION: CORDOVA APPEAL; Pg. CRB1 LENGTH: 284 words SOMERVILLE - A Memphis psychiatrist was arrested Friday on charges of reckless endangerment and illegal possession of a firearm, according to authorities. Dr. Mark Luttrell, 47, was in the Fayette County Jail on Friday awaiting an arraignment Monday in General Sessions Court here. Luttrell was medical director of the Shelby County Jail during the administration of former sheriff A.C. Gilless. Luttrell [...]