A physician from Mount Airy, N.C. was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2 million for his role in a fraud scheme, the Justice Department said in a March 14 news release.
What happened?
- Wendell Randall, MD, the sole physician and owner of the National Institute of Toxicology, regularly prescribed controlled substances such as opioids to patients without regard to whether they were medically necessary.
- Dr. Randall then ordered medically unnecessary definitive urine drug tests from his patients on every office visit.
- From August 2018 through December 2021, Dr. Randall obtained $753,446 from Medicare and $1,296,300 from Medicaid for these fraudulent urine tests.
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