What Happened
In January 2025, former Butte nurse practitioner Tristan Ashley Svejkovsky, 41, was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $613,108 in restitution. She had pleaded guilty in August 2024 to health care fraud and to use of a registration number issued to another person. The government alleged her license was suspended in April 2022 and that she kept prescribing controlled substances, later under a friend's DEA registration number, writing at least 28 prescriptions. The case also involved false billing for vitamin B-12 injections.
“Svejkovsky used her friend’s DEA registration number to write at least 28 prescriptions for controlled substances.”
Related Guidance
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and transactional indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to investigate suspected diversion inside an organization.