Tennessee physician sentenced to 7 years for fraud
Tennessee doctor Samson Orusa sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution for 13 counts of healthcare fraud.
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Tennessee doctor Samson Orusa sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution for 13 counts of healthcare fraud.
Doctors who face charges of overprescribing opioid medications rush to use a new Supreme Court decision as a defense.
Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny, brick clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.
A recent Supreme Court ruling has raised the bar to convict doctors accused of fueling the opioid crisis.
After a unanimous ruling from the high court, doctors who are accused of writing irresponsible prescriptions can go to trial with a new defense: It wasn't on purpose.