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\nA Louisville doctor received a sentence of one year of probation Wednesday three months after pleading guilty to telling his staff to distribute opioids by giving them pre-signed prescriptions.<\/p>\n
\nA Louisville doctor received a sentence of one year of probation Wednesday three months after pleading guilty to telling his staff to distribute opioids by giving them pre-signed prescriptions.<\/p>\n
Dr. Lawrence Peters faced charges as part of a nationwide health care fraud operation.<\/p>\n
In September, he pleaded guilty after he “knowingly and intentionally conspired with others in his medical practice to issue pre-signed and unsigned prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances and further directed his staff to fill the prescription at his physician’s owned pharmacy,” according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n
The Department of Justice had recommended a sentence of probation.<\/p>\n
In late 2018 and early 2019, court documents say Peters allowed his staff at the Pain Management Center of Kentucky in south Louisville to distribute opioids by giving them pre-signed prescriptions for controlled substances and told them to fill those prescriptions at his physician-owned pharmacy.<\/p>\n
UofL Health said he is not employed by the hospital but rents office space in a medical plaza at Mary & Elizabeth Hospital.<\/p>\n
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure has issued an emergency order of restriction suspending him from prescribing, administering, dispensing or otherwise utilizing controlled substances.
\nSource: WDRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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