A Fayette County doctor has pleaded guilty to health care fraud after prescribing opioids in exchange for sex U.S. Attorney Stephen Kaufman announced on Tuesday.
60-year-old Emilio Navarro of Coal Center operated family practices in Mount Pleasant and Perryopolis and in 2018 issued a patient a total of 300 units of oxycodone and 240 units of oxymorphone to a patient for no medical purpose but in exchange for sexual favors.
Navarro also then submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid for reimbursement for those prescriptions, a defrauding of Medicaid.
He will be sentenced on March 1, 2022, and is facing up to 20 years in prison.
