From January 2010 to August 2018, Gregory Gerber, MD, 58, repeatedly prescribed controlled substances — including fentanyl, oxycodone and oxymorphone — without a legitimate medical purpose, the Justice Department said in a March 14 news release.
Dr. Gerber also received $175,000 from writing 835 prescriptions for Subsys, a branded formulation of fentanyl manufactured by Insys Therapeutics, between 2013 and 2016.
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