A Tennessee doctor and his wife were sentenced to 20 years in federal prison this week for illegally distributing opioids and defrauding insurers of tens of millions of dollars out of their now-shuttered Alabama clinics, prosecutors said
A Tennessee doctor and his wife were sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Monday for illegally distributing opioids and defrauding insurers of tens of millions of dollars out of their now-shuttered Alabama clinics, prosecutors said Tuesday.in March 2022 by a federal jury in Alabama of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiring to defraud the United States and receiving kickbacks.
Prosecutors said that over five years, Murphy and his wife, who was the office manager, caused more than $50 million in fraudulent or unnecessary medical services to be charged to Medicare, TRICARE, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and others. Mark Murphy wrote prescriptions for more than 10 million opioid pills, including millions of oxycodone tablets, in the five years.
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