What Happened
Randall Halley, 65, a licensed physician at Ozark Community Hospital - Christian County Clinic in Nixa, Missouri, was sentenced in September 2022 to one year and one day in federal prison, ordered to pay $400,565 in restitution to Medicare and fined $150,000. He had pleaded guilty in December 2021 to making a false statement to Medicare to obtain coverage for a fentanyl prescription and to conspiring to let employees use his DEA registration number to issue Schedule II prescriptions in his absence. Court documents stated Insys paid him $92,225 in bribes while he prescribed its fentanyl drug Subsys.
“pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to Medicare to obtain insurance coverage for a fentanyl prescription”
Related Guidance
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and transactional indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to investigate suspected diversion inside an organization.