U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain alleges the 14 people charged — including doctors and physician assistants — unlawfully prescribed oxycodone and routinely ignored warning signs that patients were abusing or selling their prescription painkillers.
"A whopping number of illegal prescriptions," added McSwain, "at least 3,678 alleged illegal prescriptions that were medically unnecessary."
The doctors worked at Advanced Urgent Care, a medical business with office locations on City Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, Bethlehem Pike in Montgomeryville, and Easton Road in Willow Grove.
In a separate indictment, a Philadelphia doctor with a suspended medical license allegedly used his colleague as a go-between to get prescription drugs, so he could exchange them for sexual favors from a patient.