California doctor who ran opioid pill mill convicted

[Agast]

California doctor who ran opioid pill mill convicted

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A doctor was convicted Friday of illegally issuing hundreds of opioids and other drug prescriptions at several locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley, including in a back room of a nail salon, federal prosecutors announced.

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Kemprud charged $79 per visit and churned out prescriptions so quickly he would see at least 30 patients in a day.

When your pill mill game is weak

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[drusso]

California doctor who ran opioid pill mill convicted

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A doctor was convicted Friday of illegally issuing hundreds of opioids and other drug prescriptions at several locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley, including in a back room of a nail salon, federal prosecutors announced.

apnews.com

Kemprud charged $79 per visit and churned out prescriptions so quickly he would see at least 30 patients in a day.

When your pill mill game is weak

Maybe he was only working part-time.

 

[lobelsteve]

150 pts in one day, closed Tues through Fri. That would work.

 

[gaspasser127]

I’m surprised people are still doing this.

I can see it being done in the early 2000s but… in 2018-2019??

 

[painfuldoc]

Hmm looks like he was a family med doc.

 

[Gauss]

California doctor who ran opioid pill mill convicted

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A doctor was convicted Friday of illegally issuing hundreds of opioids and other drug prescriptions at several locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley, including in a back room of a nail salon, federal prosecutors announced.

apnews.com

Kemprud charged $79 per visit and churned out prescriptions so quickly he would see at least 30 patients in a day.

When your pill mill game is weak

this dude is 78 years old, he ain't getting any prison time and doesn't care if he ever practices again. so let's see how much $$ he gets fined because he may end up profiting from all this

 

[robellis]

Only 30 a day? How is that a pill mill? Some of you see more than that lol

 

[TIVAndy]

weaksauce!

 

[mid|ine]

Only 30 a day? How is that a pill mill? Some of you see more than that lol

the 30 a day clearly isn't. however, sounds like he was not doing anything else (UDS, rx monitoring...).

I do always worry when stories talk about a PE, as though there is a correct PE to determine that a patient is appropriate for opioids.

 

[sloh]

Back of a nail salon. Haha 30 patients/day is nothing and a red herring.

Back of a nail salon.

 

[DoctwoB]

Back of a nail salon. Haha 30 patients/day is nothing and a red herring.

Back of a nail salon.

How else would you get your mani-pedi-oxy on?

 

[Agast]

Back of a nail salon. Haha 30 patients/day is nothing and a red herring.

Back of a nail salon.

$79 is about the cost of a deluxe pedicure so I imagine this was the ultra luxe pedicure with oxy add on

 

[Laryngospasm]

Yeah if this guy was trying to be shady he should have fully committed, gone for 500per visit cash pay. It’s not like the dea is going to go easy on him because he charged 79$.

 

[cowboydoc]

Yeah if this guy was trying to be shady he should have fully committed, gone for 500per visit cash pay. It’s not like the dea is going to go easy on him because he charged 79$.

Being the Dollar Tree of pill mills sounds like hell to me.

 

[Laryngospasm]

It’s literally the dumbest thing he could have done. Break the law, sell your soul, hurt people, attract the dea, incur legal risk and not get rich.

 

[drusso]

It’s literally the dumbest thing he could have done. Break the law, sell your soul, hurt people, attract the dea, incur legal risk and not get rich.

A lot of these guys actually think they are doing the right thing (despite obviously doing everything wrong). They have a savior complex. There's also interesting neurobiology to self-deception...

Neural correlates of self-deception and impression-management - PubMed

Self-deception and impression-management comprise two types of deceptive, but generally socially acceptable behaviours, which are common in everyday life as well as being present in a number of psychiatric disorders. We sought to establish and dissociate the 'normal' brain substrates of...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Neural mechanisms of deception in a social context: an fMRI replication study - Scientific Reports

Deception is a form of manipulation aimed at misleading another person by conveying false or truthful messages. Manipulative truthful statements could be considered as sophisticated deception and elicit an increased cognitive load. However, only one fMRI study reported its neural correlates. To...

www.nature.com

 

[Agast]

Ah, now this is more like it.

The owner who ran a $3 million Miami pill mill and the doctors who prescribed for him​

“Patients paid $200 to $250 for an oxycodone prescription. Palacios paid the doctors $60 to $120 for each prescription”

All oxycodone 30mg. I think Oxy 30 is almost pathognomonic for “I have a drug problem.”

 

[Laryngospasm]

I always found it troublesome when they asked for “Roxies”

 

[mid|ine]

I still remember coming out of fellowship and everyone was looking for jobs. Someone found a practice being sold in LA, that was $2m+ per year in income. They called and asked about it. The only service the practice offered was dilaudid infusions and cash pay only!!! This was 10+ years ago.

 

[Ferrismonk]

I still remember coming out of fellowship and everyone was looking for jobs. Someone found a practice being sold in LA, that was $2m+ per year in income. They called and asked about it. The only service the practice offered was dilaudid infusions and cash pay only!!! This was 10+ years ago.

Well, at least they aren't overdosing in the clinic...