https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/ny-doctors-indictment-for-300000-illegal-prescriptions-leaves-patients-struggling-with-pain/
A Williamsville, New York doctor’s indictment for issuing
300,000 illegal painkiller prescriptions has left several patients without a means of acquiring medications they need for their day-to-day lives.
“I cannot function, unfortunately, without medication,” Rose Marie Eidshahen told WIVB-TV. “I have metal everywhere.”
Eidshahen’s doctor, Eugene Gosy, was indicted late last month on 114 counts of conspiracy commit health care fraud, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, health care fraud, and unlawful distribution of narcotics.
According to the New York Daily News, Goss filed false claims worth more than $241,000, and would sign blank prescriptions allowing patients to enter both the type of medication they wanted and the dosage, sometimes while Gosy himself was out of the country, a process that created 300 illegal prescription renewals a day.
If convicted, he faces a $1 million fine and up to 20 years in prison. But the closing of his office for two weeks following the indictment left Eidshahen and other patients struggling to find a new medical provider. One of them, Stephen Szymoniak, said he was placed on numerous waiting lists while searching for a doctor who could fill his prescription for buprenorphine, an opioid which is not widely available because prescribing it requires a certain certification.
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