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Burkesville dentist sentenced to 6 months imprisonment BOWLING GREEN, KY - Mary Todd Stephenson, age 51, of 1703 Smith Grove Road, Burkesville, Kentucky, in Cumberland County, was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in United States District Court, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for illegally prescribing thousands of hydrocodone with no medical purpose, U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky announced today, Monday, June 30, 2008. Thomas B. Russell, Judge, United States District Court, also sentenced Stephenson to 2 years supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system. In addition, a fine of $20,000 was imposed. Judge Russell also ordered Stephenson to forfeit her interest in the dental building in which she practiced. On December 21, 2007, Dr. Stephenson was found guilty by a federal jury after a three day trial.# Dr. Stephenson was tried for prescribing hydrocodone to patients outside the course of professional medical practice, once on November 29, 2006, and on three separate occasions on March 7, 2007. Hydrocodone is a highly addictive pain killer that requires a prescription. At trial, it was proven that Cumberland County had a significant problem with the illegal sale and distribution of prescription pain killers like hydrocodone. The Kentucky State Police conducted an investigation, and several undercover buys and arrests were made. When the dealers were interviewed following their arrest, many identified Dr. Stephenson as their source of hydrocodone. At trial it was proven that on November 27, 2007, a confidential informant, wearing a recording device, asked Dr. Stephenson for a prescription for pain pills so she could sell the pain pills to pay her bills.# Dr. Stephenson agreed, and on November 29, 2007, Dr. Stephenson prescribed hydrocodone to the informant's relative, knowing that the relative would give the hydrocodone to the informant to sell. On March 7, 2007, three informants, each wearing recording devices, met with Dr. Stephenson in her dental office, and all three told her that they were not experiencing any pain. Dr. Stephenson nonetheless performed medically unnecessary procedures on their gums and then gave them prescriptions for hydrocodone. Dr. Stephenson subsequently billed Medicaid for these medically unnecessary procedures. Evidence at trial also revealed that Dr. Stephenson:
At the sentencing hearing, Judge Russell found that Dr. Stephenson had committed perjury during her trial testimony. Also at the sentencing hearing, a witness testified that Dr. Stephenson had given them prescriptions for hydrocodone without any medical purpose, and sometimes without performing any dental work at all. Kentucky State Police detectives also testified that whereas illegal hydrocodone was widely available in Cumberland County prior to Dr. Stephenson's arrest, after her arrest the supply of hydrocodone decreased dramatically. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys David Weiser and Bryan Calhoun, and it was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Kentucky State Police. This story was posted on 2008-06-30 15:56:55
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