6 physicians facing prison sentencing

By Madelyn Kearns
07:57 AM

The year 2014 has been one of reckoning for doctors grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons: crime.

Overprescribing, cavorting in Medicare fraud schemes, even spiking a colleague’s coffee with a common antifreeze component were all acts committed by physicians that answered to the gavel in 2014.

These docs join the 2,247 physicians convicted between 1990 and 1999 and the countless others who have been sentenced to jail before and since (The Public Citizen reported such numbers in 2006 — firm physician conviction rates through the millennium remain elusive). 

Government Health IT sister site Medical Practice Insider compiled a lineup: 6 doctors who got convicted in 2014

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