Prosecutors accused Dr. Poulin of billing for patient visits that never occurred, charging for greater quantities of chemotherapy drugs than were administered to patients and splitting vials of an anemia drug between two patients and then billing as if both patients had received their own vial, according to the report. The prosecution additionally argued that Dr. Poulin altered patient records to obstruct an investigation against him.
Dr. Poulin will be sentenced March 15. He faces up to 20 years in prison for altering records, up to 10 years for healthcare fraud and up to five years on each false statement count.
Read the Virginian-Pilot’s report on Dr. Ronald Poulin.
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