From WGNS:
Five employees of a La Vergne medical clinic were last week charged in a 96-count prescription and TennCare fraud indictment by the Rutherford County grand jury, after a yearlong investigation by RCSO, TBI, DEA and the state’s Office of the Inspector General.
Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Detective Jeremy Weaver said Stacy Gaylynn Rayfield, 38, was the ringleader. Rayfield’s DEA prescription number was used in the crimes.
Rayfield was charged with 40 prescription frauds and eight TennCare frauds.
Rayfield, of 47 Lancaster Drive in Hillsboro near Manchester, is free on $50,000 bond awaiting arraignment in Circuit Court next Monday.
Fellow employee Tericka Jordan is currently avoiding service of the indictment for nine counts of prescription fraud and three counts of TennCare fraud. When captured her bond will be set at $20,000.
Three other former employees of the clinic have already been served or are in custody elsewhere:
· Mallory Walden is in federal custody in Oklahoma City, but was indicted for 19 counts of prescription fraud and three frauds of TennCare, and will have a $20,000 bond when returned here.
· Nicole Marie Avery, 21, of 2743 S. Rutherford No. 512, Murfreesboro, was charged with six counts of prescription fraud and three counts of TennCare fraud. Her bond was set at $10,000.
· Kim Gayle Anderson, 33, of 520 Dann Drive, Smyrna, is charged with six counts of prescription fraud only and is free on $10,00 bond.
The case began after an internal audit by the clinic’s manager found about 115 names of non-patients for whom prescriptions were filled between January of 2008 and 2009.
About 40 of those names were of TennCare patients.
The indictment alleges Rayfield wrote prescriptions for other employees without seeing them as patients, and also wrote prescriptions for others names for the employees to distribute.
Indictments allege that Rayfield wrote scripts for the employees without seeing them as patients, and providing scripts for other individuals to the employees.
The Sheriff’s Department reports, “Rayfield wrote prescriptions for two narcotics with a depressive effect: Lortab and Xanax. A third drug prescribed was a prescription diet aid called Phentermine." |
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