Kamal Tiwari, MD, the founder of Pain Management Center of Southern Indiana, located in Bloomington, Ind., has been accused of unnecessarily overprescribing pain medication as part of a scheme to defraud health programs. Dr. Tiwari also allegedly required patients to receive medically unnecessary pain injections in a frequency and pattern that was not medically necessary and caused some patients to become dependent on those procedures.
Dr. Tiwari’s federal trial has been scheduled for Jan. 31, 2011, according to the report.
Read the 6News report about Dr. Kamal Tiwari’s medical license suspension.
Read other coverage about Dr. Kamal Tiwari:
– Indiana Anesthesiologist Charged With Healthcare Fraud, Unlawful Drug Distribution
– Associate of Indicted Indiana Physician Accused of Writing False Prescriptions
