Former West Virginia Cardiology Fellow Gets One Year in Prison for Medicare Fraud

John Theodore Tiano, MD, a cardiology fellow at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, W.Va., has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for aiding and abetting Medicare fraud by allowing his Drug Enforcement Administration registration number to be used to prescribe prescription painkillers to patients he did not see, according to a report by the Herald-Dispatch.

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Dr. Tiano was charged with allowing mid-level practitioners at Justice Medical Complex to use his DEA number between 2005 and March 2007 to prescribe painkillers to patients not seen by him. In 2007, Marshall University required Dr. Tiano to end his association with the clinic.

Dr. Tiano was also ordered to pay Medicare $119,785 in restitution and must surrender his DEA number. He was previously sanctioned by the state Board of Medicine, according to the report.

Read the Herald-Dispatch‘s report on John Theodore Tiano.

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