Doctor Convicted For Illegally Distributing Over 1.8M Doses Of Opioids And $5M Health Care Fraud Scheme

LA 2026 Physician Practices
OIG Controlled Substance
Penalty
$5.4 million

Outcome

OIG enforcement action against Doctor Convicted For Illegally Distributing Over 1.8M Doses Of Opioids And $5M Health Care Fraud Scheme for controlled substance. Penalty: $5.4 million.

Details

Doctor Convicted For Illegally Distributing Over 1.8M Doses Of Opioids And $5M Health Care Fraud Scheme — OIG Enforcement (2026)

OIG took enforcement action against Doctor Convicted For Illegally Distributing Over 1.8M Doses Of Opioids And $5M Health Care Fraud Scheme in LA in 2026 involving controlled substance violations in the Physician Practices sector.

Penalty: $5.4 million

Violation types: Controlled Substance
Entity type: Physician Practice
Penalty type: Criminal
Location: LA

Source: Doctor Convicted For Illegally Distributing Over 1.8M Doses Of Opioids And $5M Health Care Fraud Scheme

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Source: Doctor Convicted For Illegally Distributing Over 1.8M Doses Of Opioids And $5M Health Care Fraud Scheme

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