Tennessee doctor who helped swindle the military out of $65Million can keep her medical license

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The Tennessee government will allow a small-town doctor who wrote bogus prescriptions as part of a $65 million fraud conspiracy keep her medical license.

Dr. Susy Vergot has been ordered to attend medical ethics classes and her license will be put on professional probation for five years, but she can continue to practice medicine and write prescriptions, according to state records revealed on Monday.

The records say that Vergot insists she was unaware her prescriptions were being used for fraud.

Vergot, who once worked at the Choice MD clinic in Cleveland, Tennessee, was a central figure in a cross-country fraud conspiracy that was the subject of a Tennessean investigation published in February. The conspiracy used unnecessary prescriptions for exorbitantly expensive pain cream to defraud the military out of at least $65 million over a six-month span in 2015. Seven people and companies have been indicted for the scheme, and all but two have pleaded guilty.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2019/04/16/tennessee-pain-cream-doctor-susy-vergot-fraud-marines/3473177002/

[Firestorm49]

1. Part of a $65M fraud and she's not in jail?

WTF does it take these days to incarcerate a crook?

[Blue_Tires]

2. Evidently the law is a very nebulous thing these days...

FFS I've seen doctors locally lose their licence just for insufficient oversight of patients on antidepressants(!)

[lpbk2713]

3. Hell, she doesn't need to work any more anyhow.

Her cut was probably like winning the Lottery.