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Pain clinic owner admits to falsifying prescriptions
Posted on May 10, 2010
Today in Tampa, Troy Wubbena, 44, who owns and operates pain clinics throughout the Tampa Bay area and through Central Florida, pled guilty to federal drug conspiracy. Wubbena admitted that he obtained pain pill prescriptions without patients’ knowledge and sold the pills. The pain clinic’s co-owner Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute several drugs, including oxycodone and Medicare fraud.
Wubbena, physician’s assistant, faces up to 20 years in prison on the charge he admitted to today. The chain of pain clinics, which have now closed, were described by authorities as a “widespread, significant operation” to illegally peddle addictive drugs.
Court documents reveal that the pain clinics sold thousands of pain pills to high school students and addicts all over Florida. Wubbena directed and kept track of the sales in detail on 3 by 5 note cards. Federal authorities report that the operation focused primarily on the pain drug oxycodone and relied almost entirely on blank prescription forms signed by Friedlander and filled out by the pain clinic employees, including Wubbena.
Wubbena has admitted using pre-signed forms. He, and others under his supervision, filled them out for oxycodone in the names of clinic patients, filled the prescriptions at pharmacies, then sold the tablets. Wubbena obtained more than 15,000 oxycodone tablets this way, according to the plea agreement in this case.
In another case, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies went undercover and this led to charges against Wubbena for conspiring with Friedlander and others to distribute the prescriptions to clinic patients without performing the requisite examinations and tests.
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