LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A pain management clinic that was closed after it was raided by the FBI and DEA is back open.
The three offices of Bluegrass Pain Consultants in Louisville and LaGrange abruptly closed on June 12, 2018.
Patients who had appointments and those whose prescriptions were running out were left in limbo not knowing what to do to get the medication that they need. The office opened back up on June 15, but WAVE 3 News learned patients who need their medication are still going through loopholes.
Several patients continue to contact WAVE 3 News because they don’t know what to do.
WAVE 3 News reporter Maira Ansari went looking for answers from officials at Bluegrass Pain Consultants off Dutchmans Parkway on Monday and was asked to leave.
The office issued a statement saying:
“For over 10 years we have been proud to provide exceptional patient care to our community. We look forward to continuing to serve our patients and ware grateful for their continued trust. – Christopher L. Nelson, M.D. DABPM, FIPP.”
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Law enforcement officers were in and out of the Bluegrass Pain Consultants offices in Louisville and LaGrange on June 12. The offices are located at 10241 Champion Farms Drive in Louisville, 6400 Dutchmans Parkway, Suite 60 in Louisville and 1009 New Moody Lane in LaGrange.
The FBI, DEA, Kentucky State Police and LMPD were at the offices taking in empty boxes and coming out with them full of evidence and taken out in a moving van. Law enforcement wouldn’t say why they were investigating.
The FBI sent a statement to WAVE 3 News last week:
“We {FBI} are conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity at multiple locations around Louisville as part of an ongoing investigation. Since it’s an ongoing investigation, we do not have further comment. There is no danger to the community.”
The FBI said they had no additional information since then.
On Monday, patients told WAVE 3 News that some pharmacies were refusing to fill prescriptions from Bluegrass Pain Consultants because they are under investigation. One patient from New Albany said she able to get her prescription on Friday and tried getting it filled at Kroger and was denied. She then turned to Walmart and was denied again. On Monday afternoon she finally was able to get her medication from a Walgreens.
Another patient who is out of his medication wasn’t able to see anyone last week when the office was closed and now has to wait till July 10 to get an appointment at the office. He told WAVE 3 News he doesn’t know what he will do since he will be in so much pain until he can get his medicine.
According to the Bluegrass Pain Consultants website, they offer treatment of chronic and acute pain. Dr. Christopher Nelson is the President/CEO and Dr. Brandon Sutton and Dr. Alexander Sinofsky are also physicians with the group.
WAVE 3 News did reach out to experts in the medical field and they advise that if patients cannot get their prescription or an appointment at Bluegrass Pain Consultants they should contact their doctor who originally referred them to Bluegrass Pain Consultants to find out what to do next.
This story will be updated.
It is sometimes hard to tell the difference between ignorance and ARROGANCE… like this statement from the FBI :
“We {FBI} are conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity at multiple locations around Louisville as part of an ongoing investigation. Since it’s an ongoing investigation, we do not have further comment.
There is no danger to the community.”
I guess all those pts who are now being thrown into cold turkey withdrawal are NOT PART OF THE COMMUNITY..
Pt should go back to their PCP… who believes that most are going to write controls for those pts of this “raided” pain clinic… and since the DEA confiscated all the pt’s medical record .. no other pain clinic would even begin to think about taking them on as a pt since they are part of that “raided/dirty clinic” and even if they would consider it.. .they are probably 30-60-90 days out with appts.
Apparently some pharmacists – working for Wal Mart and Kroger – are working under the premise that these prescribers – who apparently still have all their medical licenses are “dirty prescribers” and won’t fill the Rxs that they had written – OR- the pharmacist(s) at Walgreens are filling non-valid controlled prescriptions. They both can’t be right !
I sent this reporter a email… outlining what is wrong with this picture… will be interesting if I hear back from her… this happened in my “backyard” and WAVE TV is a local channel for me, but I won’t be holding my breathe waiting for her to respond. 🙁
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What is name of reporter you aren’t optimistic about? Hold everyone accountable.
here is her email mansari@wave3.com; the four TV channels out of Louisville have been relentless about the fabricated opiate crisis… especially since the DEA opened a district office in Louisville a few months back.
Criminal activity by law enforcement