Doctor is “convicted” ON ALLEGATIONS of over prescribing & NOT FOLLOWING GOOD MEDICAL PRACTICES. From what I have heard about a person being taken to FEDERAL COURT that 90%-95% will be FOUND GUILTY… Apparently in our federal court system, the DOJ/DEA can take a doc to federal court and can get them convicted over JUST ALLEGATIONS. Using the words in this article the EVIDENCE was ALLEGATIONS that the doc did not follow “good medical practices” – what the hell is the DOJ/DEA’s definition of “not good medical practices” ?
From what I have concluded, the DOJ/DEA’s opinion of “good medical practices” is based on 2016 CDC opiate dosing guidelines, which has claimed was developed by a number of “so called medical experts” and it has been stated that the studies that they used… were mostly rated on a credibility scale of 3 to 4. Where “1” was EXCELLENT and 3 to 4 were poor/crappy.
They created a “one size fits all” formula for treating pain, based on the MME system https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/03/01/true-story-morphine-milligram-equivalents-mme-16154 which this article strongly suggests that system is not supported by VALID SCIENCE nor any double blind clinical studies and totally ignored any variation of a pt’s particular disease issue and/or pt’s pharmacogenomics DNA testing- which would isolate those pts who are fast/ultra fast metabolizers and required higher singular doses and/or higher mgs/day in hopes of providing proper pain management for a individual chronic pain pt.
I have notice lately that the DOJ/DEA have went after “clawing back” Medicare/Medicaid monies, I guess a lot easier than using the civil asset forfeiture act… the former involves all CASH and the latter involves various assets, and the need to acquire the asset and liquidate of non-liquid assets – like various personal property/assets that many in multiple states and liquidation value may be less than the net proceeds of liquidating the asset.
I like Dr Bauer’s comment: he refused to abandon chronic pain patients and that he did what was necessary to help patients in severe pain and he remains concerned over the fate of thousands of chronic pain patients: people who suffer from substance abuse disorder and people who need mental health treatment. They are not getting the help them need and can’t defend themselves.
Pathetic that it has been state by the CDC that last year 70K-75K people died from illegal fentanyl – from China & Mexico – POISONING/RESPIRATORY ARREST and the DOJ/DEA continues with the hypothesis they started with in 1973 when the DEA was placed in charge to fighting the war on drugs/pts. Opiate Rxs causes addiction and OD’s. One has to ask, how many of these pts of Dr Bauer, will end up committing suicide because they cannot find another practitioner to treat their chronic pain, how many will end up trying to treat their chronic pain using “street drugs” and may end up ODing or how many will just end up trying to exist/live in a TORTUROUS LEVEL OF PAIN and end up with a premature death… because of their untreated pain ?
So much for what our founding Fathers promised us… the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect…. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Bauer reports to prison Thursday
https://sanduskyregister.com/news/390903/bauer-reports-to-prison-thursday/
SANDUSKY — Dr. William Bauer, a local doctor convicted in federal court of over prescribing pain medications, will report to federal prison on Thursday, when he’ll begin serving a five-year prison term.
Bauer, 85, was convicted of multiple charges in a federal trial in Toledo over allegations that he over prescribed pain medications and committed fraud on federal health care programs by not following good medical practices.
A jury convicted Bauer of 76 counts of distribution of controlled substances and 25 counts of health care fraud.
Many law enforcement and regulatory authorities contend that over prescribing pain pills has contributed to the opioid epidemic. Critics of the policy argue that deaths have soared because of the “war on drugs” approach.
Bauer contends that he refused to abandon chronic pain patients and that he did what was necessary to help patients in severe pain. Many of his patients continue to defend him.
“I’ve been following the sentence I’ve been given, but I firmly believe I can defend my position,” Bauer said Tuesday.
Bauer said he remains concerned over the fate of thousands of chronic pain patients: people who suffer from substance abuse disorder and people who need mental health treatment. They are not getting the help them need and can’t defend themselves, he said.
On March 10, U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary sentenced Bauer to five years in prison. Bauer also was told to pay $464,099 in restitution, which includes $253,300 paid to Medicare and $210,798 to Medicaid.
In addition, Bauer was ordered to pay $100,000 in community restitution. It was recommended he give that payment to the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Ottawa, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties.
On Thursday, Bauer will report to the Federal Correctional Institution in Morgantown, West Virginia.
It’s a minimum-security federal prison that has sometimes been nicknamed “Club Fed” because of its amenities. It is commonly used to house white-collar, nonviolent inmates.
Bauer is appealing his conviction to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The grounds for the appeal will become public in a few weeks when his appeals brief is filed. Bauer said only that he believes his attorney will be able to file a strong appeal.
Bauer practiced in Sandusky and lived in the Port Clinton area.
About two weeks ago, his daughter, Catherine “Cate” Whiddon, helped Bauer and his wife move to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas. Bauer was able to attend his grandson’s wedding before preparing to report to prison.
The grounds for the appeal will become public in a few weeks when his appeals brief is filed. Bauer said only that he believes his attorney will be able to file a strong appeal.
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This is corrupt and insane to go after doctors for helping their patients!!Dea,kolodony needs to go after the real problem people who abuse illicit drugs!Stop trying to be a doctor when you are so uneducated obviously!!This country needs help we are going backwards causing so much pain and heartache when we have scientific medication for pain!Its illicit drugs and addicts that’s what it’s about not doctors and pain medication!!
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It really appears to me,and obvious,,this was about $$$$$$$$,,,dea got kicked out of many countries for human rights abuses,,,,kolodny psychiatry had every single institutions shut down for human rights abuses,,unbelievable the last 1 in 2010,,,,,THEY BOTH NEEDED $$$$$$,,,INSURERES DIDN’T WANT TO PAY FOR PRE-EXISTING,,AND WE ARE ALL PRE-EXISTING,,,,,BUT INSTEAD OF PSYCHIATRY ABUSES IN A CLOSED FACILITY,,,NOW THEY HAVE PUT ALL OF IT OUT IN THE PUBLIC,,,,ALLL THE ABUSES PSYCHIATRY WAS /IS GUILTY OF IN THEIR ONCE INSTITUTIONS LIKE WAVERLY,,PENNHURST AND THE EAST COAST,, MY GOD NEW YORK HAD TOO MANY INSANE ASYLUME TO COUNT,,,THAT IS WHAT KOLODNY LEARNED,,,AND NOW OUR GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWING HIM TO PRACTICE ALLL OF PSYCHIATRY ABUSES OUT IN THE PUBLIC,,POLICED BY THE DEA,AND 60 ANTI-OPIATE MEDS,,,,again,,,,WHO NEEDS 4 CEMENT WALLS,,,W/POLICED PSYCHIATRY DERIVED GUIDELINES AND 60 NEW ANTI-MEDICINE BILLS,,,THIS POOR innocent DOCTOR IS A IN JAIL BECAUSE OF ANDREW KOLODNY ABUSIVE,INHUMANE POLICY’S,,,SANCTIONED AND POLICED BY THE DEA,, JMO,,,I
DID FORWARD THIS TO THE UN HRC,,,JUST FYI,,STATING 1 OF 1000’S OF INNOCENT DOCTORS.,,MARYW
This is absolutely unbelievable. Why punish a Dr if he writes a script and says take 3 a day and you decide to take 20 a day? That’s the reason us chronic pain patients are not being helped bc Drs fear losing their license or going to prison. This Dr was a Godsend and I hope and pray the ones responsible for his conviction, pay dearly!!! This is wrong!! Leave this 85 yr old man alone. Shameful and disgraceful! Now, his patients can turn to the streets and die from fentanyl and heroin, or commit suicide. How many drug dealers have killed people and serve time? I hope he sues the hell out of somebody!!! WRONG WRONG WRONG! I have to lay in bed all day and can’t function bc of back pain bc I was seeing a Dr who could prescribe me enough meds so I could function everyday but he got SCARED and cut me back so now I’m not worth a schit!! We don’t abuse our meds. It’s like these people making these rules, want us to die and get out of the way. And as for the man that had back surgery and shot the surgeon bc he begged for something for pain, pain meds didn’t kill this man when he took his life!!! The lack of pain meds killed him!!!
Dr. Bauer saved me twice. My pain was so severe. I had actually gone to his office and asked what dosages to take, begged him to help me end my life. Rsd/CRPS was so sever at that time that I could not think through the next fifteen minutes.
The gov’t played dirty. They put me down as a witness for them so that I could not testify on behalf of Bill. I was not the only one either. That was not fair! They also had people lie. Failed to get that written up in the paper.
Bauer was a life saver to a lot of people for 100’s of miles around. This is a rural area. Life has not been the same for many folks.
U know Steve as u told me long ago,,,the truth,,this Doctor is 100%% innocent,,doesn’t matter,,,it is all about agenda,,,truth has no place in a corrupt regime,,,The Federal Government knows nothing,,,nothing,,about the practice of medicine,,which is why cfr 42-1395 is written,and is against the law for them to interfere with the practice of medicine,,,Why no attorney has jumped on that to defend ALLLLLL our innocent doctors,,,i would love to know the answer to that???!!!!
This is wrong on too many levels to count. What is wrong with the DOJ/DEA??? Can’t these asinine bureaucrats see what is right in front of their faces? How can these supposedly intelligent people be so obtuse? Is it on purpose?
Dr. Bauer sounds like a caring, compassionate man to me…why don’t these alphabet agencies go after the REAL culprits… The ones that are funneling in illegal and illicit fentanyl!!!
The MME table is a joke, along with the “guidelines” but they’re both taken as gospel by the majority of pain management doctors… and even though their patients are suffering, nothing happens to them… Oh no!!! Decent caring individuals, like Dr. Bauer are persecuted… The man is EIGHTY FIVE years old, for heavens sake…leave him ALONE!!!