(THE BLAZE) – A Michigan doctor has been found guilty on 30 of the 32 charges related to overprescribing opioids and insurance fraud that federal prosecutors leveled against him.
David Jankowski, 62, of Bingham Farms, Michigan, ran what amounts to an opioid “pill mill,” writing perhaps thousands of what prosecutors called “medically unnecessary prescriptions” for controlled substances such as Oxycontin, Oxycodone, morphine, hydrocodone, Xanax and others.
According to an investigation conducted by the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services, Jankowski issued or authorized the issuance of more than 1.7 million Schedule II substances, 800,000 Schedule III substances, and 870,000 Schedule IV substances, all to lure opioid-addicted patients to his practice and use them to engage in an insurance fraud scheme.
