In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Bowdoin G. Smith, who was a doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed by the State of Tennessee Department of Health, Board of Osteopathic Examination in August 1987, consented in October 2012 to prescribing pain medication when it wasn't medically necessary. His license was placed on probation for three years.
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Brian Richey, Daniel Seeley and Jonathan White, nurse practitioners, were employed at pain clinics. They are accused of scheming to illegally gain money by making false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which provides health benefits for Defense Department employees and their families. The grand jury indictment claims they
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Brian Richey, Daniel Seeley and Jonathan White, nurse practitioners, were employed at pain clinics. They are accused of scheming to illegally gain money by making false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which provides health benefits for Defense Department employees and their families. The grand jury indictment claims they
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Brian Richey, Daniel Seeley and Jonathan White, nurse practitioners, were employed at pain clinics. They are accused of scheming to illegally gain money by making false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, which provides health benefits for Defense Department employees and their families. The grand jury indictment claims they
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Darrel R. Rinehart, an internist, is accused of routinely prescribing "highly addictive opioids" including morphine sulfate, hydrocodone, oxycodone and extroamphetamine for patients without a legitimate medical purpose. The state medical board suspended him in November 2018 through May 2019, when his license would expire. A grand jury investigation
In the Middle District of Tennessee, John Polston, a pharmacist licensed by the state of Tennessee's Board of Pharmacy, was in charge of the Oakley Pharmacy Inc., doing business as Dale Hollow Pharmacy in Clay County. He is accused of knowingly and without authority dispensing and distributing pain medications and benzodiazepines, drugs which are dangerous
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Lawrence Valdez, an emergency specialist licensed with the Tennessee health department's Board of Examiners, is accused in an indictment of prescribing oxycodone and oxymorphone, among other medications, for his patients outside the usual course of professional practice 12 times between June 2016 and March 2017. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155091/download
In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Timothy Abbott, a licensed podiatrist with the Tennessee Department of Health, Board of Examiners, was accused of prescribing opioids including hydrocodone for no legitimate medical reason between January 2015 and October 19, 2018. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155096/download
In the Western District of Tennessee, Dr. Thomas Ballard III, is accused of issuing prescriptions for opioids including oxycodone, morphine and hydrocodone along with benzodiazepines, which are dangerous to take at the same time as opioids, at Ballard Clinic-Family Practice in Jackson outside the usual scope of professional practice and with no legitimate reason. He's
In the Western District of Tennessee, Britney Petway, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Charles Alston, are accused together in an indictment. It claims that Petway issued prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs at Superior Health and Wellness Clinic LLC, in Jackson, without a medical need and that Alston was the supervising doctor there while