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Former Derby Pain Clinic Nurse Implicated in Opioid 'Kickback' Scheme: Report
A pharmaceutical company sales manager has been charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the scheme.
DERBY, CT — A nurse formerly with Comprehensive Pain and Headache Treatment Center of Derby is awaiting sentencing for allegedly taking kickbacks from a pharmaceutical company, and now a former sales manager for the company has been arrested.
Connecticut Health I-Team reports that Edgewood, NJ, resident Jeffrey Pearlman, a former sales manager for Insys Therapeutics, was arrested in connection with an alleged scheme that paid former pain care nurse Heather Alfonso and others for prescribing the company's Subsys drug, a strong opioid.
Subsys is a fentanyl-based sublingual spray that is normally prescribed to help cancer patients. The payments were in the form of fraudulent "speaker programs" where medical staffers were paid to attend what ended up just being dinner engagements, according to prosecutors.
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