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Updated: 9:37 AM Sep 16, 2010
2 W.Va. Doctors Lose Licenses After Convictions
Two doctors convicted of allowing pain pill prescriptions to be illegally issued under their names are losing their licenses to practice medicine in West Virginia.
Posted: 9:37 AM Sep 16, 2010Reporter: The Associated Press Email Address: news@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE: 9/16/10 @ 9:30 a.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Two doctors convicted of allowing pain pill prescriptions to be illegally issued under their names are losing their licenses to practice medicine in West Virginia.
The West Virginia Board of Medicine has revoked the licenses of Dr. John T. Tiano and Dr. Augusto T. Abad.
Tiano's revocation was effective Wednesday. Abad's revocation is effective Sept. 25.
Both doctors pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal charges of allowing staff members at a southern West Virginia clinic to use their federal drug registration numbers to issue prescriptions.
Each was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
UPDATE 8/24/10 @ 7:45 a.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A doctor at a southern West Virginia pain clinic has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for allowing staff members to use his federal drug registration number to issue prescriptions.
U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. ignored longer federal sentencing guidelines Monday, citing Dr. Augusto T. Abad's years of service to the Williamson area.
The Charleston doctor also had pleaded guilty in February to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare.
Dr. John Tiano, another doctor at the Justice Medical Center on the Wayne-Mingo county line, received the same sentence in May after pleading guilty to similar charges.
ORIGINAL STORY 2/27/10
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A doctor at a southern West Virginia pain clinic has pleaded guilty to allowing staff members to use his federal drug registration number to issue prescriptions.
Dr. Augusto Abad of Charleston also pleaded guilty Friday to participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare. The 52-year-old Abad faces up to 14 years in prison when he is sentenced June 3 in federal court in Charleston.
Another doctor at Justice Medical Center on the Wayne-Mingo county line previously pleaded guilty to similar charges. Dr. John Theodore Tiano will be sentenced March 18.
Latest Comments
Dr. Abad is a great doctor and a good person. If you don't know him, you should not judge him. All things are not as they seem.
Does this seam right or what. they faces 14 years in jail. Plead guilty. Get 1 year 1 day. The problem here is. They will both be out in 2 months spending all that money they got for letting them writing those prescriptions. Let it be be me or you doing something like this and not a over paid rich doctor you would face 14 and get 28 years!!!!!!!!
To Kelly. I agree with some of what you are saying..but THAT is NOT the problem. The problem is what this article is about. And frankly, this is the best way to start with the source of the problem of this stupid addiction..the DOCTORS! Good job (for once)
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