What Happened
A federal grand jury charged a Central Ohio physician practicing in Dublin with charges related to a health care fraud scheme and with prescribing and distributing Suboxone without medical necessity.
The scheme allegedly included marketing prescription creams in Sav-a-Lot and low-income neighborhoods and persistently mailing those creams to Medicaid customers. The physician was charged in a seven-count indictment and was scheduled for an initial appearance in federal court. The Board of Pharmacy collaborated on the investigation with the Ohio Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, HHS Office of Inspector General, DEA and FBI.
What the Record Shows
Charged in a seven-count federal indictment on October 30, 2018; scheduled for an initial appearance in federal court.
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: Charged in a federal indictment with a health care fraud scheme that involved marketing prescription creams in low-income neighborhoods and persistently mailing those creams to Medicaid customers, and with prescribing and distributing Suboxone without medical necessity.. 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.