A Florida pain management doctor will pay $1.5 million to settle the U.S. government’s lawsuit filed against him — accusing him of accepting thousands of dollars to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl product to patients, federal prosecutors said.
In exchange for $159,580 in bribes, Dr. Edward Lubin prescribed a company’s fentanyl spray to dozens of people without valid medical reasons from 2014 to 2016, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid Lubin to issue prescriptions for Subsys, its product meant to “treat breakthrough cancer pain,” the attorney’s office said in September 2021, when the lawsuit was filed.
Of the 61 patients Lubin prescribed the fentanyl spray to, 52 didn’t have cancer, according to prosecutors.
Fentanyl, a synthetic prescription opioid used to treat severe pain, is estimated to be approximately 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
At least 15 doctors, seven former Insys executives and seven former Insys sales representatives have been criminally convicted in connection with the company’s scheme to defraud patients and medical insurers such as Medicare, the attorney’s office said in an Oct. 27 news release.
Lubin agreed to the $1.5 million settlement to resolve the case and the government’s accusations that he violated the False Claims Act, the attorney’s office announced in the release. He’s accused of violating the law by causing more than 400 false claims for Subsys to be...
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