Montco Doc Wrote Illegal Scripts In Basement Bucks Co. Office: DA

BUCKS COUNTY, PA —A 55-year-old Bucks County doctor has been charged with improperly and illegally prescribing suboxone to patients at his Middletown Township basement office, authorities said.

Jenkintown’s Dr. Kenneth Fox was charged with 12 counts each of administration of any controlled substance by a practitioner and furnishing false or fraudulent records and three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

Fox was arraigned on Wednesday by Magisterial District Judge Charles D. Jonas and was sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility under $75,000 bail, 10 percent, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

In November 2023 Bucks County Detectives began investigating Fox, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine with an office on Frosty Hollow Road in response to a complaint.

Fox was fired from Jefferson Health but was still seeing patients in the basement of the same building and used suspicious and questionable practices when seeing them, authorities said.

A patient of Fox’s since late 2017 told detectives his medical practice changed in the summer of 2023 when the practice moved to the basement of the building.

In the basement, patients would have to wait inside a hallway where chairs were lined up. There were no appointment times, people would just show up and Fox would call out next when he wanted to see another patient, authorities said.

The $130 office visit would be paid through an app on a phone, the patient told detectives.

With each office visit, the patient would receive a 30-day supply of Suboxone. During each office visit, the patient would sit on a chair and Fox would be at his desk.

After receiving payment, the doctor would submit the prescription for Suboxone.

Fox was recently fined $489,025 for failing to maintain complete and accurate records of controlled substances, failing to keep required receipt and dispensing records, failing to perform biennial inventories, and writing prescriptions “for stock,” Drug Enforcement Agency officials said.

Starting in February, Bucks County Detectives used confidential informants or undercover officers to visit Fox.

During the investigation, the undercover officers could hear Fox's other patient visits because he left his door open during the visits. At no time did they hear the doctor talk about the patient's health or discuss any issues.

Through the Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitor Program (PDMP), detectives discovered that Fox was prescribing Suboxone to 80 patients during the time frame of this investigation.

On June 24, detectives served a search and seizure warrant at Dr. Fox’s basement office. Detectives found incomplete patient files with most of Fox’s notes being prescriptions.