McMurray doctor imprisoned for painkiller scrips faces fraud sentencing
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Western Pennsylvania doctor serving more than 11 years in federal prison for writing phony painkiller prescriptions now faces sentencing for unrelated health care fraud charges.
Forty-three-year-old Oliver Herndon likely faces 30 to 37 months in prison when he’s sentenced Tuesday before a federal judge in Pittsburgh.
Herndon pleaded guilty to submitting hospice care claims for patients who weren’t terminally ill or medical claims for other services not provided while he was medical director of a Horizons Hospice location in Monroeville.
Herndon, of McMurray, was sentenced two years ago after he was convicted of supplying patients with so many illegal painkillers that his arrest in 2011 caused the street price of the pills to double.
Herndon’s attorney has previously said he believes Herndon will be able to serve Tuesday’s sentence concurrently with the painkiller sentence.