Filling health care needs as essential as finding fraud

By Ira Zunin

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 31, 2012

~~<p>Several local physicians are under investigation for prescriptive practices, and three of them have lost privileges to treat Medicaid patients, according to a report this week. These providers were among the state's top 10 prescribers of OxyContin and Xanax in combination with psychiatric medications.</p>
<p>Also this month a Kauai physician was sentenced to 12 years in prison for alleged violations in the prescription of controlled substances. In recent years several other Hawaii physicians have lost the ability to prescribe narcotic pain medication, lost their medical licenses or were sentenced to prison.</p>
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Several local physicians are under investigation for prescriptive practices, and three of them have lost privileges to treat Medicaid patients, according to a report this week. These providers were among the state's top 10 prescribers of OxyContin and Xanax in combination with psychiatric medications.

Also this month a Kauai physician was sentenced to 12 years in prison for alleged violations in the prescription of controlled substances. In recent years several other Hawaii physicians have lost the ability to prescribe narcotic pain medication, lost their medical licenses or were sentenced to prison. Login for more...