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"Couple get long prison terms in Kansas 'pill mill' case"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local article providing the outcome in a high-profile federal health care fraud case.  Here are the details: Linda Schneider should carry most of the responsibility for her husband?s patients who overdosed and died, said a federal judge who described the deaths as ?an avoidable tragedy motivated by greed.? But Stephen Schneider, a former physician, could have stopped it, U.S. District Judge Monti Belot said Wednesday as he sentenced the couple. Belot gave Linda Schneider 33 years in prison and Stephen Schneider 30 years for their practices of prescribing painkillers at their Haysville clinic. Stephen Schneider is 57; Linda Schneider is 52. There is no parole from federal prison. Belot said Linda Schneider, a licensed practical nurse who managed the clinic, set up an operation to make money off the quantity of patients, not the quality of care...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).