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Louisville doctor accused of taking bribes and kickbacks from a compounding pharmacy in Florida, among dozens nailed with drug charges from a 7-state bust.

In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a doctor operating a clinic that focused on pain management allegedly provided pre-signed, blank prescriptions to office staff who then used them to prescribe controlled substances when he was out of the office. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1154886/download

In the Western District of Kentucky, a doctor, a Florida compounding pharmacy and its owner were charged in connection with a scheme that involved the payment of alleged kickbacks in return for writing prescriptions for compounded drugs that included controlled substances, and for fraudulently inflating the costs for prescriptions that were billed for reimbursement by

In the Western District of Kentucky, a doctor was charged with controlled substance and health care fraud counts in connection with providing pre-signed, blank prescriptions to office staff who then used them to prescribe controlled substances when he was out of the office, and for directing staff at the clinic, including individuals not licensed to

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in exchange for cash payments, Nkanga wrote thousands of oxycodone prescriptions for patients, some of whom displayed visible signs of drug addiction, without conducting any physical examination, or even seeing them in an examination room. Nkanga also wrote prescriptions in the names of patients who did not even visit his medical office. On one occasion,

Pietropinto wrote thousands of medically unnecessary oxycodone prescriptions in exchange for $50 to $100 in cash per visit. Pietropinto wrote these prescriptions to drug-addicted individuals, including one patient who overdosed on drugs, and who had previously been prescribed by Pietropinto both oxycodone and naloxone, a medication used to block the effects of opioid overdoses, because

Anderson prescribed nearly a million oxycodone pills to patients he knew had no legitimate medical need for the medication, including Grande, who sold the pills on the streets of New York. Anderson often saw his patients, some of whom displayed visible signs of drug addiction, without appointments and with little notice, in the middle of