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| A Mason City woman accused of stealing prescription drugs and violating patient confidentiality laws has pleaded guilty. Mason City station KIMT reports that Samantha Rogers also pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids to making false statements related to health care matters. Prosecutors dropped other charges in return for her pleas. A | Cerro Gordo County Iowa | November 19, 2019 | View full detail | |
| A former Council Bluffs nurse faces felony charges. Pottawattamie County prosecutors said she stole nearly 2,000 pain pills from a Council Bluffs nursing home. It’s red flags from the pharmacist and a billing discrepancy that brought the thefts to light. Now Bethany Lutheran home is changing policies, so it doesn’t happen again. And the nurse | 7 Elliott St, Council Bluffs, IA 51503 | Bethany Lutheran Home | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| The woman, identified as Christina Ann Santos, 29, is being charged with multiple felonies. She admitted to investigators she stole more than 1,600 pills of various types of painkillers from her employer, an affidavit shows. According to an arrest affidavit, Santos was a staff nurse at Healthsouth Rehabilitation Institute of San Antonio where another nurse | 9119 Cinnamon Hill Dr, San Antonio, TX 78240 | HealthSouth Rehabilitation Institute of San Antonio (RIOSA) | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Over the course of five years, two pharmacy technicians stole more than 2 million doses of prescription drugs from the hospital where they worked. | 550 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 | Emory University Hospital Midtown | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Kim Marie Lesher, a licensed practical nurse, has been sentenced to a mix of jail time, house arrest and probation for stealing patient prescription pain medications from the elderly at an area nursing home. Lesher was given a 30-month intermediate punishment sentence. The sentence requires Lesher to spend the first four months in county jail | 9108 PA-198, Conneautville, PA 16406 | Rolling Fields Elder Care Community | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Couple charged in theft of marijuana from lab in Framingham, MA | 85 Speen St, Framingham, MA 01701 | MCR Labs | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Michigan Anesthesiologist discovered by nurse in hospital bathroom after overdosing on stolen fentanyl. | 1425 E Ann St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Two workers who were diverting medications overdosed on the same day. One died. For details see https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2014/04/police_u-m_doctor_overdosed_on.html DelVecchio was found dead at the Neuroscience Hospital, 1500 East Medical Center Drive. She, too, was locked in a bathroom with hospital-issued sedation medication and a syringe. An autopsy report obtained by The Ann Arbor News revealed Delvecchio | 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | University of Michigan Neuroscience Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Northern District of Alabama, a doctor allegedly dispensed controlled substances and other prescription drugs directly from the clinic, and prescribed excessive quantities of controlled substances to the same patients several times per month resulting in as many as 15 pills per day for some patients. In that case, the doctor also signed blank | 8208 AL-53, Toney, AL 35773 | Choice Medicine Clinic | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Northern District of Alabama, a doctor and pharmacy technician were charged with operating a Pill Mill, (a) prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the scope of professional practice; (b) filling those prescriptions; and (c) using the proceeds from these activities for the personal benefit See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155036/download | 3421 S Shades Crest Rd, Hoover, AL 35226 | Horizon Medical - Healthcare & Spa | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Northern District of Alabama, a doctor and pharmacy technician were charged with operating a Pill Mill, (a) prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the scope of professional practice; (b) filling those prescriptions; and (c) using the proceeds from these activities for the personal benefit See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155036/download | 3421 S Shades Crest Rd #111, Hoover, AL 35244 | Horizon Medical - Healthcare & Spa | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Office manager at an Alabama family medicine clinic arrested for her alleged role in a pill mill conspiracy. | 3421 S Shades Crest Rd #111, Hoover, AL 35244 | Horizon Medical - Healthcare & Spa | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Northern District of West Virginia, a case was brought against an orthopedic surgeon who allegedly used fraudulent prescriptions to obtain tablets of acetaminophen-codeine for his own use. To obtain the pills, the surgeon allegedly wrote out prescriptions using his DEA number, and in the names of a relative even though the pills were | 200 Orthopedic Way, Morgantown, WV 26505 | Fairmont Regional Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Southern District of West Virginia, Dr. Marc Spelar, a psychiatrist from Milton, is accused of 10 counts of illegal drug distribution between 2016 and 2017. The drugs were dextroamphetamine, methylphenidate and amphetamine salt. Sperlar has been prohibited from practicing in West Virginia since August 2017 under a consent order with the In 2017 | 5600 US-60, Huntington, WV 25705 | Dr. Marc J Spelar | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Eastern District of Louisiana, a neurologist at an alleged pill mill was charged with conspiracy to dispense controlled substances and conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The defendant allegedly pre-signed prescriptions for controlled substances, including oxycodone, for patients whom he did not personally examine to determine medical necessity for the prescriptions, and pre-signed | 1425 Fremaux Ave # B, Slidell, LA 70458 | Allied Medical | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a former licensed practical nurse allegedly filled fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone in her name and in the names of others at a local pharmacy in order to obtain the pills for herself and to distribute to others. Brown forged the prescriptions primarily from prescription pads and paper she stole | Pennsylvania | An Unnamed Pharmacy in Pennsylvania | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| The DEA commenced its investigation of Dignity Health following reported losses of over 20,000 tablets of hydrocodone from the outpatient pharmacy at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, CA in late 2010 and 2011. A 2011 audit conducted by the DEA at the pharmacy revealed significant shortages of a number of the controlled substances evaluated, | 1800 N California St, Stockton, CA 95204 | St Josephs Medical Center | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Over the course of at least 85 different occasions between February 1, 2010 and August 20, 2013, the pharmacist stole more than 35,000 pills, including highly addictive painkillers such as oxycodone. DEA’s ensuing audit of AMH’s controlled substances revealed pill count discrepancies totaling over 35,000, missing or incomplete medication inventories, and altered or missing drug | 1200 Old York Rd, Abington, PA 19001 | Abington Hospital - Jefferson Health (FKA Abington Memorial Hospital) | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Thomas was employed as a nurse practitioner by a medical facility with multiple facilities in Idaho. Each facility had a locked cabinet where controlled substances, including painkillers, were kept. Thomas did not have access to the locked cabinets. On at least seven occasions, however, Thomas accessed the cabinets at different facilities, and took bottles of | 3115 E Florence St, Meridian, ID 83642 | Primary Health Medical Group | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Record high fine, to date. Two nurses stole nearly 16,000 pills, mostly oxycodone, from automated dispensing machines. Another pediatric nurse injected himself with Dilaudid while at work. And other findings, e.g., a doctor prescribing CS for patients without seeing them, staff not securing CS, etc. DEA’s ensuing audit of MGH’s controlled substances revealed pill count | 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114 | Massachusetts General Hospital | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Pharmacy and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have reached an agreement settling alleged pharmacy violations in which the pharmacy will pay a $95,520 civil penalty and take other steps to ensure compliance with federal law and Drug Enforcement Administration regulations, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced. The settlement agreement is the | 308 Mission Dr, St Ignatius, MT 59865 | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Pharmacy | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Pharmacists sentenced to prison and ordered to pay millions in restitution to the state for illegally dispensing controlled narcotics in a "pill mill" scheme. | 1634 Jonesboro Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30315 | Medicine Center Pharmacy | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Desiree Ulibarri, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty in federal court to federal prescription opioid conspiracy charges under a plea agreement that recommends that she be sentenced to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 57 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. At the time Ulibarri committed | 5981 Jefferson Plaza NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109 | Alliance Home Health and Hospice | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| A woman, age 36, of Osceola, was charged with three counts of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge and three counts of false statements related to health care matters. The indictment alleges she fraudulently obtained Oxycodone pills from residents at Calvin Community and Valley View Village nursing homes in Des Moines | 4210 Hickman Rd, Des Moines, IA 50310 | Calvin Community nursing home | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
| Alicia Danielle Swenson, age 32, of Des Moines, was charged with three counts of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception, and subterfuge and three counts of false statements related to health care matters. The indictment alleges Swenson fraudulently obtained Hydrocodone pills from residents at Carlisle Center for Wellness and Rehabilitation and diverted them | 695 Cole St, Carlisle, IA 50047 | Carlisle Center for Wellness and Rehabilitation | November 19, 2019 | View full detail |
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