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The U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday a Tampa area pain management clinic and physician are ordered to pay $600,000 in civil penalties after alleged illegal opioid distribution. ....
A clinic in New Port Richey, Florida has been ordered by a federal court to shut down its business after being accused of prescribing opioids to patients illegally. ....
Dr. Tobias Bacaner allegedly prescribed dangerous opioids at the cash-only Paragon Clinic in New Port Ritchey Patients would often fill their prescriptions at the nearby Cobalt Pharmacy, which Bacaner co-owned Between 2013 and 2019, at least 16 people died from some form of drug toxicity after Bacaner prescribed them dangerous opioids The U.S. Justice Department has now filed a civil lawsuit against the doctor ....
Dr. Tobias Bacaner was known in New Port Richey for prescribing opioids. At the cash-only clinic along U.S. 19 where he worked, Bacaner routinely prescribed patients painkillers, tranquilizers and muscle relaxers. Many patients would then fill those prescriptions at a nearby pharmacy he owned, according to a federal civil lawsuit filed February. That suit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, claims that Bacaner, who has been a licensed physician in Florida since 1990, may be responsible for as many as 16 drug overdose deaths. Bacaner prescribed Oxycodone more than any other controlled substance, often at the highest strength possible of 30 milligrams, according to the lawsuit. A national prescription database published by ProPublica shows that while Oxycodone was Bacanerâs most prescribed drug, for his peers it was on average their 59th most prescribed drug. ....
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Physician, Pharmacy, and Clinic Owners for Controlled Substances Act Violations Published: 20 February 2021 20 February 2021 Tampa, Florida - The United States filed a civil complaint seeking to permanently enjoin the owners of a Tampa-area clinic and pharmacy from unlawfully dispensing opioids and other controlled substances, the Department of Justice announced Friday. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the government alleges that Dr. Tobias Bacaner, Theodore Ferguson II, and Timothy Ferguson used Paragon Community Healthcare Inc., to unlawfully issue controlled substance prescriptions, and Cobalt Pharmacy Inc., to unlawfully fill controlled substance prescriptions, all in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. The complaint alleges that the defendants ignored obvious signs of abuse or diversion when issuing and filling opioid prescriptions. The complaint also alleges that ....