Pain Doctor Pleads Guilty To Taking $68,400 In Kickbacks For Opioid Speaking Role

(February 19, 2019, 9:47 AM EST) -- NEW YORK —  A Manhattan pain management doctor on Feb. 14 pleaded guilty to violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b), by taking about $68,400 in bogus speaker fees from September 2014 to June 2015 from Insys Pharmaceuticals Inc. in exchange for becoming one the highest prescribers of the fentanyl-based opioid in the United States, according to the court docket and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (United States v. Gordon Freedman, et al., No. 18-cr-217, S.D. N.Y.)....

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