United States v. Bek

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• holding that HIPAA does not give rise to a physician-patient or medical records privilege
• upholding conviction under § 841(a) where evidence showed, among other things, that physician “disregard[ed] . . . blatant signs of drug abuse,” and performed “uniform, superficial, and careless medical examinations”
• affirming conviction for aiding and abetting healthcare fraud where trial testimony showed that defendant “was aware that he prescribed unnecessary medication and that the health care benefit programs would ultimately pay some (or all) of the costs of those medically unnecessary drugs.”
• “[T]o convict . . . a practitioner registered to distribute controlled substances[] of violating § 841(a)(1), the gov- ernment must show that he prescribed controlled sub- stances outside ‘the course of professional practice.’”

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