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Former AL, current TN doctor & family indicted for $41 Million healthcare fraud scheme
Posted on 10/1/20 at 10:21 am
Posted on 10/1/20 at 10:21 am
6 people indicted, one already plead guilty to other charges
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A doctor who shut down his North Alabama pain clinics after being accused of over-prescribing pills has been indicted on federal charges.
Six other people were indicted along with Lewisburg, Tenn., Dr. Mark Murphy in the Northern District of Alabama in what federal prosecutors say was a $41 million health care fraud scheme.
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Murphy and his wife Jennifer, both 63, are accused of using their Alabama clinics, North Alabama Pain Specialists, to unlawfully distribute drugs and to develop a large patient group they could use to profit from medically unnecessary services. The clinics operated in Madison and Decatur.
In addition to the Murphys, prosecutors charged Brian Bowman, 39, of Attalla; Christie Rollins, 49, of Petersburg, Tenn.; Mark Murphy Jr., 33, of Lewisburg; and Willie Frank Murphy, 67, of Lewisburg. They are all accused of conspiring to receive $41 million in kickbacks for items and services that weren’t medically necessary.
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Among the things unnecessarily prescribed were medical office visits, drug screens, medical equipment, high-reimbursing prescription drugs and nerve conduction studies, authorities said. In some cases, prosecutors said, those items and services weren’t even provided.
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Posted on 10/1/20 at 10:26 am to LegendInMyMind
I can’t even describe the evil involved in this. They likely made thousands of people dependent on narcotics unnecessarily.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 10:31 am to LegendInMyMind
Roll Tide
Posted on 10/1/20 at 11:00 am to LegendInMyMind
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A doctor who shut down his North Alabama pain clinics
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Lewisburg, Tenn., Dr. Mark Murphy
Moving your practice across the state line doesn't allow you to escape federal charges.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 12:31 pm to LegendInMyMind
Tennessee is more corrupt than Illinois, per capita.
It's just not as well-publicized.
It's just not as well-publicized.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 1:54 pm to LegendInMyMind
If you crime is such small potatoes you can get in deep trouble. Think big, scammers.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 2:01 pm to LegendInMyMind
Pretty sure I've hung out with that Brian Bowman guy. Friend of a friend deal. Didn't seem like the type to get caught up in something like this, but that's what everyone says.
ETA - Yep, the Facebook confirms it. Played golf with him and the mutual friend a year or so ago. I think he said at the time he was in medical device sales so wondering how he got caught up in this.
ETA - Yep, the Facebook confirms it. Played golf with him and the mutual friend a year or so ago. I think he said at the time he was in medical device sales so wondering how he got caught up in this.
This post was edited on 10/1/20 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 10/1/20 at 2:19 pm to LegendInMyMind
41 million is chump change compared to the Tri-care pain cream fraud scheme.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 2:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
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pain clinics
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fraud scheme
Shocker... It's legalized distribution to addicts that benefits big pharma
Posted on 10/1/20 at 3:12 pm to LegendInMyMind
Not surprised
I know most of them
I know most of them
Posted on 10/1/20 at 3:29 pm to LegendInMyMind
You have to be really dumb to not get away with over prescribing/over providing unnecessary medical services and drugs. It is almost always a case of them getting too greedy.
They likely have evidence of their plot that they emailed/texted each other as well. Or they did some dumb shite like giving 1,000 pills to one person for a month or something.
If done right, you don't get caught. It's a shame, but it's true. Always provide what you bill for and never, ever document the strategy in a way that can be used against you. And keep it relatively small time and never more than one patient can possibly have.
If you do all that, the worst they get you with is a medical board problem, not a legal one because you can argue it was what you believed medically best for the patient.
Doctors are people too and there are thousands that have no ethical code. It's pitiful.
ETA:
Also, doctors that flood the streets with opiates should be put in jail for decades.
They likely have evidence of their plot that they emailed/texted each other as well. Or they did some dumb shite like giving 1,000 pills to one person for a month or something.
If done right, you don't get caught. It's a shame, but it's true. Always provide what you bill for and never, ever document the strategy in a way that can be used against you. And keep it relatively small time and never more than one patient can possibly have.
If you do all that, the worst they get you with is a medical board problem, not a legal one because you can argue it was what you believed medically best for the patient.
Doctors are people too and there are thousands that have no ethical code. It's pitiful.
ETA:
Also, doctors that flood the streets with opiates should be put in jail for decades.
This post was edited on 10/1/20 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 10/1/20 at 9:35 pm to LegendInMyMind
So many scumbag doctors out there taking advantage of people.
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