Psychiatrist gets 9 mo jail for accepting pharma kickbacks

Reinstein, who practiced psychiatry in the Uptown neighborhood since 1973, prescribed the Clozapine to thousands of elderly patients in area nursing homes and hospitals, federal prosecutors said. At one point in the early 2000s, he was the largest prescriber of Clozapine to Medicaid recipients in the county...

In exchange for writing the prescriptions, pharmaceutical companies paid the doctor consulting fess and entertainment expenses such as meals, sports tickets and all-expense-paid vacations, according to the statement.


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We need more of this.

I am willing to bet this is the tip of the iceburg. And certainly would explain a lot. More then anything I am pleased to see an actual case of wrong doing was taken seriously.