Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
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Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
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Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#2As a Detroiter I'm not surprised in the least bit. It seems yearly that some a'hole doctor is in the news for doing something terrible.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#3Ugh. I’m going on for surgery next Thursday, for a laparoscopic partial colon resection, and one of the things I’m most worried about will be post-surgery pain killers. Hearing stories about excessive pain killer use and prescription really make me want to avoid them, but on the other hand I’ll need to be up & moving around ASAP to speed my recovery, and pain would get in the way of that.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#4Wow! Now it makes sense how Dr. Rajendra Bothra was well connected in the Indian Bollywood industry. I personally recall big Bollywood stars opting to stay over his house during their US trip instead of a local 5 star hotel...mind you, this was back in late 90s. I hadn't heard of him in a while thinking he might've retired or died. This is a shocker that they're taking him down while in his retirement. Feds do not kid around!
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#5Wow,that’s a huge amount of fraud. If they get convicted they may never see the outside of a prison again.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#6> Officials said the defendants prescribed opioid medications to induce patients to visit the office, then in order to get them, they had to undergo ancillary services, including painful facet joint and facet block injections.
This is disgusting on so many levels.
If this is true I hope they throw the book at all of them and anyone else involved as well.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#7> It is alleged that between 2013-2018, the following doctors engaged in illegally prescribing controlled substances and fraudulent health care billings:
This breaks the rule about not breaking the law while breaking the law.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#8> "The damage that opioid distribution has done to our community and to the United States as a whole has been devastating" said U.S. Attorney Schneider
I guess scapegoat big pharma is successfully finding their own scapegoats!
The feds could straightforwardly address the fentanyl problem by deillegalizing opiods, allowing reputable distribution to take over. And then society could maturely deal with addiction as a personal medical problem. But I guess it's easier to keep hanging it all on personal responsibility and let that DEA/CIA gravy train continue rolling.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#9Ugh. I’m going on for surgery next Thursday, for a laparoscopic partial colon resection, and one of the things I’m most worried about will be post-surgery pain killers. Hearing stories about excessive pain killer use and prescription really make me want to avoid them, but on the other hand I’ll need to be up & moving around ASAP to speed my recovery, and pain would get in the way of that.
The person who knows their need for pain control best is you.
Follow your doctor’s recommendations and communicate how the pain is.
Some people need opioids for relatively minor surgery while others can get by with NSAIDS for relatively major surgery.
Re: Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
#10Ugh. I’m going on for surgery next Thursday, for a laparoscopic partial colon resection, and one of the things I’m most worried about will be post-surgery pain killers. Hearing stories about excessive pain killer use and prescription really make me want to avoid them, but on the other hand I’ll need to be up & moving around ASAP to speed my recovery, and pain would get in the way of that.
Use them only when you need them.
I was really annoyed when my wife’s doctor freely prescribed her oxi after her delivery even though my wife never asked for it and never showed any sign of needing it.
Having free flowing prescriptions is how we end up with so many addicts.