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Greenwood nurse charged with illegally obtaining drugs on duty

A Greenwood nurse is facing charges that she illegally obtained drugs while she was on duty.

Stephanie Ray Barton, 46, formerly a licensed practical nurse (LPN) at Golden Age Nursing Home in Greenwood turned herself in to investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit following indictment by the Leflore County Grand Jury on seven counts of “obtaining a controlled substance by means of fraud…”
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2 plead guilty in chemotherapy fraud case

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JACKSON – (AP) A cancer doctor and her former billing agent have pleaded guilty for their parts in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud case in which prosecutors said old needles were reused, chemotherapy drugs were […]