A Miami doctor issued thousands of prescriptions a week to Medicaid patients, at a cost of millions of dollars to the state.
healthnewsflorida.org: Since 2004, a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed almost 14 million pills to Medicaid patients at a cost to taxpayers of $43 million, a state agency says.
Fernando Mendez-Villamil would have had to issue 4,000 prescriptions a month, or 1,000 a week, to keep up that pace, according to the report released this week by the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Altogether in the six years from 2004-09, he issued nearly 285,000 prescriptions, the AHCA report showed.
