Nurse practitioner sentenced to 20 years prison for pill mill clinic

[Agast]

A Wauwatosa pain clinic owner is sentenced to 20 years in prison for operating a pill mill operation that led to an overdose death

14 patients overdosed and died.

2 years of practice garnered $2.2 million in revenue!

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[pmrmd]

$2.2m after two years of work. Nice. I’m sure she had several enjoyable nights out and a couple of great vacations. Hope it was worth it.

 

[RoloTomassi]

Wow NPs can independently run clinics and write schedule 2s in Wisconsin?

 

[bedrock]

This is what happens when you give glorified nurses the illusion they are doctors.

 

[mid|ine]

This is what happens when you give glorified nurses the illusion they are doctors.

Unfortunately too many doctors have also chosen greed over patients.

 

[deleted941485]

This lady should self immolate in front of the families of the victims. I’ll pay for the kerosene.

 

[Ferrismonk]

Wow NPs can independently run clinics and write schedule 2s in Wisconsin?

In many states actually. Even crazier, many will also allow Naturopaths the same privilege.

 

[xvaderx]

A Wauwatosa pain clinic owner is sentenced to 20 years in prison for operating a pill mill operation that led to an overdose death

14 patients overdosed and died.

2 years of practice garnered $2.2 million in revenue!

Looks like the timeframe was all of 2015 and 2016, I wonder if anyone knows when the NP was actually approached by the government. Was it in 2016 as things were moving along or later, like last year, after things had calmed down.

I feel like acting sooner on the governments behalf would prevent a lot of unnecessary prescriptions and morbidity/mortality, but also doesn't allow these large flashy cases to build up.

Just ask for patient records after three months of super high prescribing? Wouldn't most people back off then?

 

[robellis]

20 years for one opioid death? Seems overly harsh

 

[lobelsteve]

20 years for one opioid death? Seems overly harsh

The majority of the harm was in the dealing of drugs. 10s of thousands of pills on the street.

 

[Agast]

20 years for one opioid death? Seems overly harsh

20 years for 14 deaths. That’s about 1.4 years per person she killed.

 

[ateria radicularis magna]

This lady should self immolate in front of the families of the victims. I’ll pay for the kerosene.

Lol !

 

[gaseous_clay]

“At one point, Robert Hofschulz hired armed security with counting machines when it became too dangerous and time consuming for him to count daily cash receipts of up to $10,000.”

Wtf?!

 

[nopain1234]

In many states actually. Even crazier, many will also allow Naturopaths the same privilege.

CRNAs have also been given prescriptive authority in many states