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Massachusetts Doctor Charged with Health Care Fraud

By Altman & Altman

In Boston on Thursday, Massachusetts Dr. Scott Reuben was charged with one count of health care fraud. Reuben used to serve as the chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center. Reuben has agreed to plead guilty and pay $420,000 in restitution. According to federal court records, the Longmeadow physician falsified medical research. He is accused of falsifying findings he presented in at least 21 published studies. For example, the charge against him claims that Reuben actually never tested anyone (he told them he had tested 200 people) when he presented findings to Pfizer about the use of Celebrex in multimodal therapy. The pharmaceutical company had given him a $74,000 research grant. Reuben faces up to 10-years in prison. However, because of the plea agreement he will likely receive a significantly lighter penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on January 17, 2010 (boomark / email).