Former AL, current TN doctor & family indicted for $41 Million healthcare fraud scheme

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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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