Posted Friday March 12, 2010 4 months, 2 weeks ago
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A former head of the cancer pharmacy at UW Hospital in Madison is accused of falsifying prescriptions so he could get over 12,000 methadone pills. 58-year-old Joseph Thiesen was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on 25 counts of prescription drug fraud. State licensing records from last year showed that Thiesen had received treatment for an addiction to painkillers.
According to the charges, Thiesen entered false entries of prescriptions in a centralized narcotics record that’s required by federal law. He allegedly reported that he dispensed methadone to 2 dead patients. And in other cases, authorities said he issued the drug to patients under prescription numbers given to a different person. Thiesen worked at UW Hospital from 1989 until he was fired last April. The hospital said earlier that no patients were harmed.
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