Niles Physician Pleads Guilty to Illegally Prescribing Controlled Substances and Healthcare Fraud
The U.S. Attorney secured a guilty plea by a physician who practiced until early 2022, in federal court on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, to 31 counts of illegally prescribing patients opioids and other controlled substances and 20 counts of healthcare fraud. According to court documents, the physician knowingly prescribed medically unnecessary controlled substances to patients…