Boynton Beach Doctor Arrested for Writing Unlawful Prescription
SOURCE: WPBF
Authorities have arrested a Boynton Beach licensed physician on suspicion of prescribing medications in situations "where there is no medical necessity." The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration said they received a tip that Dr. Peter Katz was not conducting proper patient examinations, not establishing patient files and not taking patient medical histories when prescribing narcotics. The DEA was also notified that Katz was seeing patients after business hours at his office and even his personal residence. Katz is a data-waived physician who is licensed to dispense and administer narcotic drugs to addicts for maintenance or detoxification treatment. According to the DEA, Katz has also been associated with "a number of highly suspicious overdose deaths." When an undercover agent met with Dr. Katz, they said the meeting took place after business hours. The agent also said that Katz did not conduct a physical examination, take the agent's blood pressure or heart rate reading. When the agent told Katz he was there for Oxycodone, the physician allegedly wrote the prescription without obtaining the aforementioned information. Adolphus P. Wright, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Miami Field Division stated, "In the midst of this opioid crisis, it is unconscionable that a data-waived physician would be part of the problem and not the solution. DEA will always be vigilant in finding these unscrupulous medical professionals and seeing to it that they are prosecuted accordingly."Katz faces state charges of willingly and unlawfully writing a prescription for Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen, a Schedule II controlled substance, for which there is no medical necessity.
Authorities have arrested a Boynton Beach licensed physician on suspicion of prescribing medications in situations "where there is no medical necessity."
The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration said they received a tip that Dr. Peter Katz was not conducting proper patient examinations, not establishing patient files and not taking patient medical histories when prescribing narcotics. The DEA was also notified that Katz was seeing patients after business hours at his office and even his personal residence.
Katz is a data-waived physician who is licensed to dispense and administer narcotic drugs to addicts for maintenance or detoxification treatment.
According to the DEA, Katz has also been associated with "a number of highly suspicious overdose deaths."
When an undercover agent met with Dr. Katz, they said the meeting took place after business hours. The agent also said that Katz did not conduct a physical examination, take the agent's blood pressure or heart rate reading. When the agent told Katz he was there for Oxycodone, the physician allegedly wrote the prescription without obtaining the aforementioned information.
Adolphus P. Wright, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Miami Field Division stated, "In the midst of this opioid crisis, it is unconscionable that a data-waived physician would be part of the problem and not the solution. DEA will always be vigilant in finding these unscrupulous medical professionals and seeing to it that they are prosecuted accordingly."
Katz faces state charges of willingly and unlawfully writing a prescription for Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen, a Schedule II controlled substance, for which there is no medical necessity.