BK Doctor Who Led $25M Painkiller Scheme Pleads Guilty: Feds

CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN — A disgraced Brooklyn doctor who led an illegal painkiller scheme out of his two medical clinics has pleaded guilty to 16 felony charges and could spend five years in prison, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Dr. Lazar Feygin was one of 13 people — including a former assemblyman, Alec Brook-Krasny — that were arrested in 2017 for a conspiracy that illegally sold prescriptions for millions of oxycodone pills and defrauded Medicaid and Medicare of millions of dollars to launder the money.

Feygin, the ring leader of the scheme, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of conspiracy, criminal sale of prescription for a controlled substance and health care fraud.

He led the scheme out of two Brooklyn clinics, Parkville Medical Health, in Kensington, and LF Medical Services of New York, in Clinton Hill.

There, Feygin would direct staff to give patients unnecessary medical tests so that they could bill Medicaid and Medicare. In exchange, he would give the patients oxycodone prescriptions they didn't actually need, prosecutors said.

He admitted to giving prescriptions even to patients he knew were illegally reselling the pills to those using other drugs, like heroin.

The scheme prescribed more than 3.7 million oxycodone pills and brought in $16 million in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements over five years before investigators used a wire-tapping scheme to catch Feygin in April 2017.

Another pill mill started up by one of his co-conspirators, Paul McClung, prescribed over 2.6 million pills between 2013 and 2017 and received over $8.6 million, prosecutors said.

McClung has already been sentenced, but the case against many of Feygin's co-conspirators remain open, prosecutors said.

Feygin used the money he brought in from the scheme to live a luxurious lifestyle, including buying up real estate, making frequent trips overseas and buying luxury goods, prosecutors said.

He will be sentenced on April 23, likely to five years in prison and be forced to forfeit his medical license, prosecutors said.