In 2007 he prescribed various medications to 4,141 Medicaid patients, including more prescriptions for clozapine than were written by all the doctors in Texas put together, Medicaid records show. Records also showed he was getting government reimbursement for seeing an improbably large number of patients.
Doctor accused of taking kickbacks to prescribe anti-psychotic drug
Staff report
Dr. Michael J. Reinstein also submitted at least 50,000 claims to Medicare and Medicaid falsely claiming he had provided “pharmacologic management” for his patients at more than 30 area nursing homes and long-term care facilities, according to the health care fraud lawsuit filed by the U.S. attorney’s office.
“This is the largest civil case alleging prescription medication fraud against an individual ever brought in Chicago,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Gary S. Shapiro.
Reinstein was the subject of an investigation by ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune in 2009 that found Reinstein, 69, had compiled a worrisome record of providing assembly-line care with a highly risky drug.
Searching publicly available documents, reporters discovered that Reinstein had been accused of …………………….
How about the fact that Clozapine is listed on the FDA AERS data base as the drug that is number three for fatal outcomes out of all FDA approved drugs?
We live in a dangerous world.
“Seeing a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.” – Peter Breggin, M.D.
Duane
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It doesn’t surprise me at all. Which explains why we see these kind of “fad” diagnoses pop up, like ADHD. Suddenly everyone from children to adults have ADHD and should take a specific medication for it… there’s unbelievable amounts of money running around behind the scenes.