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High-Prescribing Psychiatrist Faces Federal Charges of Illegal Pharma Kickbacks for Prescribing Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes
The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois filed a federal fraud lawsuit today against a Chicago psychiatrist profiled by ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune in 2009 for his alleged excessive prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to nursing home patients.