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Old 02-19-2020, 07:31 PM   #19332
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by panerd View Post
My doctor was arrested yesterday for opioid/medicare fraud. Am I right to be concerned about what kind of care I have been recieving these past several years? I am a hypochondriac to begin with, can't imagine what tests I was sent for was just to possibly return favors. Or should I just assume a doctor is still a doctor at heart and that while he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar so to say he still provided great care to his patients as well?

St. Louis County doctors face federal charges in opioid prescription bust | FOX2now.com

My gut says it's unlikely to have impacted your care a whole lot.

At the scale that seems to be suggested here, there probably wasn't a need to send you on a testing scavenger hunt, the profit was likely coming from this instead.
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