Tennessee NP's Forced Unnecessary TPI's on Patients Exchange for Pills

[drusso]

3 PainMD clinic nurses indicted, gave patients 'very painful' bogus injections, feds say

PainMD, which operates pain clinics in Tennessee, is accused of giving unnecessary back injections to inflate profits.

www.tennessean.com

“The threat was to remove those patients source of prescription drugs if they did not comply,” Cochran said. The indictment says the three suspects acted under direct instruction of PainMD’s owner and chief medical officer, neither of whom are identified. The owner of PainMD is Michael Kestner, a non-practicing attorney, and the chief medical officer is Dr. Lisabeth Williams. Neither Kestner nor Williams have been charged with any crime."

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[bronchospasm]

Pills for injections schemes can only last soo long.

 

[Aether2000]

Unfortunately, this is not uncommon.

 

[Orin]

I'm surprised they haven't found folks trading ESIs/RFAs/SCS for pills

 

[nvrsumr]

We would need half as many pain docs if patients didn’t get pills for pokes.

 

[Aether2000]

More than one clinic in S. Indiana was trading pills for injections. As long as they had a steady stream of injections by the patient, they continued providing opioids. As soon as the patient objected that the injections were not helping, they were offered SCS or the door. Most took the SCS.

 

[paindoc007]

Most pain doctors don’t like having patients who just want opioids and nothing else. Pushing for other treatment options isn’t wrong. It just can’t be the wink wink you do this shot and I give you another rx. Sometimes it’s pt and weight loss. As long as they’re trying.