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Faygo Kid

(21,477 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 01:59 PM Dec 2018

Six Detroit-area doctors charged in $500M opioid scheme

Source: Detroit News

Six doctors were charged in an unsealed indictment Thursday with cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of almost $500 million and fueling the nation's opioid epidemic by illegally prescribing more than 13 million doses of prescription pain medication.

The dollars and drugs involved make the alleged health care fraud conspiracy one of the largest in Michigan history, and one of the largest nationwide.

The scheme was focused within three pain clinics in Macomb County. They are The Pain Center USA in Warren and Eastpointe, and Interventional Pain Center in Warren.

The three clinics were owned and operated by Dr. Rajendra Bothra, 77, of Bloomfield Hills, a surgeon, humanitarian and politician. In 1999, Bothra was presented with the highest civilian honor bestowed in India, known as the Padmashri. . . .

Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2018/12/06/feds-allege-six-detroit-area-doctors-fueled-opioid-crisis-health-care-fraud-conspiracy/2225239002/



Doctors? I say creeps.
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Six Detroit-area doctors charged in $500M opioid scheme (Original Post) Faygo Kid Dec 2018 OP
These MF*ers give medicine a bad name FakeNoose Dec 2018 #1
Thank You for posting this..500 million...quite a fraud.. Stuart G Dec 2018 #2
And when all of those patients are suddenly jonesing will they turn to street drugs? truthisfreedom Dec 2018 #3
Yes TexasBushwhacker Dec 2018 #7
Primum non nocere! Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2018 #4
LOVE your nom de plume! Faygo Kid Dec 2018 #5
You are too kind! Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2018 #6
Life terms in prison. Lucky Luciano Dec 2018 #8
Link to the DoJ PR nitpicker Dec 2018 #9

FakeNoose

(32,351 posts)
1. These MF*ers give medicine a bad name
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 02:04 PM
Dec 2018

Don't tell me the Feds didn't know about these guys YEARS ago. It's not that hard to figure out who is abusing the system, especially since the prescription pads are all numbered and customers have to show ID before they can get the drugs.

The fact that Medicare looked the other way and allowed it to continue, suggests that somebody (or several people) were taking money under the table. They all belong in jail.



Lucky Luciano

(11,242 posts)
8. Life terms in prison.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:32 PM
Dec 2018

Abusing trust to this degree has to incur severe penalties. Similarly, cops who commit crimes abusing the public’s trust should get triple penalties.

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