High-Prescribing Nurse Charged With Accepting Drug Company Kickbacks
A Derby nurse practitioner identified as the state’s highest Medicare prescriber of potent narcotics has admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company in exchange for prescribing pain medication....
View ArticleHighest Prescribers Of Cancer Drug Paid As Speakers
Eight of the top 10 prescribers of a potent narcotic used for cancer pain were paid more than $870,000 in speaking fees by the drug maker in 2013 and 2014 -- indicating that Derby nurse Heather Alfonso...
View ArticleDrug Company Tied To Connecticut Nurse Settles Kickback Case In Oregon
The company alleged to have paid kickbacks to a Derby nurse in exchange for her prescribing of a potent pain medication has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a case brought by the state of Oregon,...
View ArticleDerby Nurse Pressured By Drug Company To Boost Sales
A Derby nurse who admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company that makes the powerful painkiller Subsys was pressured by sales representatives to increase her prescribing “so that the Subsys numbers...
View ArticleDerby Nurse Cooperating In Broadening Federal Probe
A Derby nurse who admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company that makes the powerful opioid painkiller Subsys is cooperating with federal investigators, who recently charged two drug company...
View ArticleFBI Reaches Out For Victims Of Subsys Scheme
In an unusual move, the FBI is reaching out publicly to patients who were prescribed the powerful narcotic medication Subsys, which federal agents allege was improperly dispensed by practitioners...
View ArticleDerby Nurse’s Sentencing Delayed Until July
A federal judge has agreed to a six-month delay in sentencing a Derby nurse who pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful opioid painkiller because she is cooperating...
View ArticleHigh-Prescribing Nurse Charged With Accepting Drug Company Kickbacks
A Derby nurse practitioner identified as the state’s highest Medicare prescriber of potent narcotics has admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company in exchange for prescribing pain medication....
View ArticleHighest Prescribers Of Cancer Drug Paid As Speakers
Eight of the top 10 prescribers of a potent narcotic used for cancer pain were paid more than $870,000 in speaking fees by the drug maker in 2013 and 2014 — indicating that Derby nurse Heather Alfonso...
View ArticleDrug Company Tied To Connecticut Nurse Settles Kickback Case In Oregon
The company alleged to have paid kickbacks to a Derby nurse in exchange for her prescribing of a potent pain medication has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a case brought by the state of Oregon,...
View ArticleDerby Nurse Pressured By Drug Company To Boost Sales
A Derby nurse who admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company that makes the powerful painkiller Subsys was pressured by sales representatives to increase her prescribing “so that the Subsys numbers...
View ArticleDerby Nurse Cooperating In Broadening Federal Probe
A Derby nurse who admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company that makes the powerful opioid painkiller Subsys is cooperating with federal investigators, who recently charged two drug company...
View ArticleFBI Reaches Out For Victims Of Subsys Scheme
In an unusual move, the FBI is reaching out publicly to patients who were prescribed the powerful narcotic medication Subsys, which federal agents allege was improperly dispensed by practitioners...
View ArticleDerby Nurse’s Sentencing Delayed Until July
A federal judge has agreed to a six-month delay in sentencing a Derby nurse who pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful opioid painkiller because she is cooperating...
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