NEW YORK – A Manhattan doctor, who lives in New Rochelle, pled guilty to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, in connection with a scheme to prescribe Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based spray, in exchange for bribes and kickbacks from the drug’s manufacturer, Insys Therapeutics.
Jeffrey Goldstein, 49, prescribed his patients Subsys in exchange for close to $200,000 in bribes and kickbacks from the drug’s manufacturer, as well as other items of value including all-expenses paid visits to a Manhattan strip club.
Goldstein is the fourth doctor to plead guilty in this case.
US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said this case “should stand as a warning to the New York medical community that if you take bribes from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for prescribing – whether in the form of Speaker Program fees or otherwise – this office will hold you to account for placing your own interests above those of your patients.”
When sentenced next January, Goldstein faces up to five years in federal prison.
