Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

DEA, FBI Raid Penn. Hospice Physician's Office

It's not just hospices feeling the effects of a crackdown on the industry. The feds have raided the office of a physician who is the medical director of a Pittsburgh hospice. Agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Pennsylvania attorney general's office served Horizons Hospice medical director Oliver W. Herndon with a suspension order barring him from writing prescriptions for controlled substances and raided his office, a DEA representative told Bloomberg News. The raid and suspension occurred after a December Bloomberg News article profiled the case of a Horizons Hospice patient who spent 32 months on service before being discharged with an alleged narcotics addiction. Herndon is also the medical director of four nursing homes.
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