What Happened
Kurt Moran, 70, a Scranton, Pennsylvania physician, was sentenced to 140 months' imprisonment for unlawful distribution of controlled substances and a health care fraud scheme. He had pleaded guilty to distributing Subsys, maintaining drug-involved premises, and health care fraud, and agreed he distributed oxycodone and fentanyl outside the usual course of professional practice, with the death of a patient resulting. He admitted that Insys Therapeutics paid him about $140,000 to prescribe Subsys to patients without cancer. He surrendered his DEA registration in 2020. The court also ordered three years of supervised release, forfeiture and restitution of $6,586.
“to 140 months’ imprisonment for unlawful distribution of controlled substances and engaging in a health care fraud scheme”
Related Guidance
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and transactional indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to investigate suspected diversion inside an organization.