COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The proprietor of Southeast Regional Pain Center (SRPC) successful Columbus, Georgia, is agreeing to wage a $1 cardinal civilian punishment to settee alleged violations of aggregate national acts.
M.D. Kenneth Barngrover was registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and ran a worker’s compensation pharmacy retired of SRPC, allowing him to dispense controlled substances.
Dr. Barngrover’s signifier was believed to person violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and the False Claims Act (FCA).
The pursuing alleged violations were resolved successful this settlement:
- failing to support a biennial inventory
- failing to support a current, implicit and close grounds of controlled substances
- collecting medications without DEA authorization oregon documentation of receipt
- billing Medicare and Tricare for medically unnecessary valuation and absorption services
- valuation and absorption services that were up-coded
- psychological investigating services that were not appropriately rendered.
The CSA upholds recordkeeping requirements for those handling controlled substances — these requirements mean to guarantee the due handling, accounting and distributing of controlled drugs.
The FCA imposes civilian penalties for those committing fraud wrong national programs specified arsenic Medicare, Medicaid and others.
Dr. Barngrover besides entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the DEA, which volition beryllium successful effect for the upcoming 3 years.
The colony resolved allegations — determination has been nary determination oregon admittance of liability.
The claims resolved by this colony are allegations only, and determination has been nary determination oregon admittance of liability.
This lawsuit was investigated by Diversion Investigator Chris Crutchfield of DEA-Atlanta District Office, Special Agent Kevin White of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) and Bryan Cofer of the U.S. Department of Defense-Defense Criminal Investigative Service. (DOD DCIS).
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