What Happened
A director of nursing at a Montgomery-area nursing home used pre-signed prescription pads left by the facility's medical director to fax fraudulent prescriptions to the pharmacy, then kept the hydrocodone tablets delivered by the pharmacy courier rather than administering them to patients.
The scheme ran from November 2022 to April 2023 and was investigated by the Alabama Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit after referral from the state health department. She pleaded guilty to Theft of Property Second Degree, was sentenced to 18 months in community corrections, and surrendered her nursing license.
What the Record Shows
Convicted (guilty plea) of Theft of Property Second Degree; sentenced to 18 months in a community corrections program and surrendered nursing license
Why It Matters for Diversion Programs
This entry comes from a primary source rather than a federal enforcement release, and it is recorded as reported: Used pre-signed prescription pads left by the facility's medical director to fax fraudulent prescriptions to the facility's pharmacy, then took and kept the narcotics received from the pharmacy's courier instead of administering them to patients, from November 2022 to April 2023. Board and news records are a lagging indicator - by the time a licensing authority or a reporter learns of a diversion, the diversion was normally detected internally first, which makes each entry a signal that inventory reconciliation, waste observation or dispensing oversight failed earlier.