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Connecticut Nurse Among Highest Prescribers In U.S.
A Derby nurse practitioner was among the top 10 prescribers nationally of the most potent controlled substances in Medicare’s drug program in 2012 – an anomaly in a state where Medicare records show...
View ArticleHigh-Prescribing Nurse Surrenders Drug Licenses
A Derby nurse practitioner whose prolific prescribing of potent narcotics was the subject of a February story by C-HIT has surrendered her state and federal licenses to prescribe controlled substances...
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Handful Of High Prescribers Boost Medicare Spending, New Data Show
Ten Connecticut prescribers, including a Derby nurse practitioner who is under investigation by the state, were responsible for more than 22 percent of the state’s Medicare spending on potent narcotics...
View ArticleDerby Pain Clinic Medical Director Fined $7,500 By Med Board
The medical director of a pain clinic in Derby was reprimanded and fined $7,500 on Tuesday by the state Medical Examining Board for writing prescriptions for patients based on assessments of their...
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High-Prescribing Nurse Charged With Accepting Drug Company Kickbacks
A Derby nurse practitioner identified as the state’s highest Medicare prescriber of potent narcotics has admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company in exchange for prescribing pain medication....
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Case Against Derby Nurse Involves Potent Painkiller
Federal charges against Derby nurse Heather Alfonso center on a powerful and addictive painkiller called Subsys, which has been heavily marketed by the Arizona-based manufacturer Insys Therapeutics,...
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Meriden Family Sues Nurse For “Potentially Deadly” Prescribing
The family of a Meriden man who died in 2013 at age 56 is suing Derby nurse practitioner Heather Alfonso and the pain clinic where she worked, alleging that her rampant overprescribing of narcotics...
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Highest Prescribers Of Cancer Drug Paid As Speakers
Eight of the top 10 prescribers of a potent narcotic used for cancer pain were paid more than $870,000 in speaking fees by the drug maker in 2013 and 2014 -- indicating that Derby nurse Heather Alfonso...
View ArticleDerby Pain Clinic Terminated From Medicaid Program
The state has barred practitioners at a Derby pain clinic, including a high-prescribing nurse, from participating in the Medicaid program because of improprieties in treatment and oversight. Documents...
View ArticleDrug Company Tied To Connecticut Nurse Settles Kickback Case In Oregon
The company alleged to have paid kickbacks to a Derby nurse in exchange for her prescribing of a potent pain medication has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a case brought by the state of Oregon,...
View ArticleReporting Of Pharma Payments To APRNs To Start In 2017
A state initiative that would have required drug companies and device manufacturers to start reporting their payments to advance practice registered nurses (APRNs) this year has been delayed to 2017....
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Derby Nurse Pressured By Drug Company To Boost Sales
A Derby nurse who admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company that makes the powerful painkiller Subsys was pressured by sales representatives to increase her prescribing “so that the Subsys numbers...
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Derby Nurse Cooperating In Broadening Federal Probe
A Derby nurse who admitted taking kickbacks from a drug company that makes the powerful opioid painkiller Subsys is cooperating with federal investigators, who recently charged two drug company...
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Derby Pain Clinic’s High Prescribing Of Cancer Drug Extends Beyond Nurse
Four nurses, all of them affiliated with a Derby pain clinic, were responsible for nearly all of the state’s 2014 Medicare spending on the powerful opioid painkiller Subsys, which is at the center of a...
View ArticleDrug Company Falsely Claimed Patients Had Cancer, Feds Allege
A former executive of Insys Therapeutics has been criminally charged for leading a special “reimbursement unit” at the company that defrauded insurers into paying for a potent opioid pain medication...
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Handful Of Prescribers Responsible For Large Share Of Opioids
Ten Connecticut prescribers, including a Derby nurse who is at the center of a federal kickback probe, were responsible for more than 23 percent of the state’s Medicare spending on opioids in 2014,...
View ArticleFBI Reaches Out For Victims Of Subsys Scheme
In an unusual move, the FBI is reaching out publicly to patients who were prescribed the powerful narcotic medication Subsys, which federal agents allege was improperly dispensed by practitioners...
View ArticleDerby Nurse’s Sentencing Delayed Until July
A federal judge has agreed to a six-month delay in sentencing a Derby nurse who pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful opioid painkiller because she is cooperating...
View ArticleDerby Pain Clinic Terminated From Medicaid Program
The state has barred practitioners at a Derby pain clinic, including a high-prescribing nurse, from participating in the Medicaid program because of improprieties in treatment and oversight. Documents...
View ArticleDrug Company Tied To Connecticut Nurse Settles Kickback Case In Oregon
The company alleged to have paid kickbacks to a Derby nurse in exchange for her prescribing of a potent pain medication has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a case brought by the state of Oregon,...
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