I am pleased with the recently released report Questionable Doctors
because I am confident that our healthcare system needs serious work when it comes to patient’s safety. I
just think that the decision makers need a push in the right direction.
On the train, on my way to the NY State Department
of Health patient safety committee the day after this report came out, I opened
up the local newspaper, Long
Island Newsday, and read an article about the wife of Dr. Anand Persaud, a
Baldwin physician who improperly issued thousands of prescriptions for
oxycodone and other drugs in exchange for cash payments in 2011 and 2012. Now his wife is charged with criminal tax
fraud and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree.
Prosecutors said Dr. Persaud, an internist, wrote
the prescriptions for powerful painkillers during at least 5,800 patient visit
and sold prescriptions for oxycodone to undercover agents posing as patients
without examining or questioning them.
A July 2013 Newsday
article reports New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose
Medicaid fraud unit conducted the 13-month investigation, said Persaud is one
of the state's top prescribers of pain pills.
An August 2, 2013 report on News
12 Long Island reported Dr. Persaud is out on $500,000.00 bail. Then, for almost a year, nothing until I read
about his wife yesterday.
Looking at Dr. Persaud’s information on the NY State’
Physician Profile website, www.nydoctorprofile.com
Anand Persaud is presently practicing (or could be) with no questionable
actions (other than 3 settled medical malpractice cases) The state doesn’t add “under
investigation” to their comments.
So one may say, if he is innocent until proven
guilty Google your doc to get up to date information – if you even want to
know.
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