LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville doctor received a sentence of one year of probation Wednesday three months after pleading guilty to telling his staff to distribute opioids by giving them pre-signed prescriptions.
Dr. Lawrence Peters faced charges as part of a nationwide health care fraud operation.
In September, he pleaded guilty after he "knowingly and intentionally conspired with others in his medical practice to issue pre-signed and unsigned prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances and further directed his staff to fill the prescription at his physician's owned pharmacy," according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
After the sentencing Wednesday, his attorney, Steve Romines, declined to comment.
The DOJ had recommended a sentence of probation.
In late 2018 and early 2019, court documents say Peters allowed his staff at the Pain Management Center of Kentucky in south Louisville to distribute opioids by giving them pre-signed prescriptions for controlled substances and told them to fill those prescriptions at his physician-owned pharmacy.
UofL Health said he is not employed by the hospital but rents office space in a medical plaza at Mary & Elizabeth Hospital.
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure has issued an emergency order of restriction suspending him from prescribing, administering, dispensing or otherwise utilizing controlled substances.
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