Prosecutors say a former doctor in Paintsville has admitted to his role in a conspiracy responsible for illegally distributing more than 25,000 prescription pills in Eastern Kentucky.
On Monday, Rano Bofill, 72, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully dispense Oxycodone.
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According to court documents, from January 2009 until December 2012, Bofill conspired with Tammy Cantrell and Shelby Lackey to distribute thousands of Oxycodone pills to patients without a legitimate medical purpose. Cantrell and Lackey owned Care More Pain Management, LLC, located in Johnson County. Bofill acknowledged that he wrote prescriptions for numerous patients after performing little to no examination. Officials say some instances, he even signed off on prescriptions without actually ever seeing the patients. Patients who visited the clinic paid $200 for the initial visit and $185 for subsequent visits; all fees were paid in cash. Bofill admitted he saw approximately 25 patients per day and was paid between $5,000 and $6,000 per week.
Lackey and Cantrell pleaded guilty last year to their roles in the conspiracy. Another doctor at the clinic, Richard Albert, pleaded guilty in July 2012 to a conspiracy charge and was sentenced to 75 months in prison. Albert, Cantrell and Lackey have collectively agreed to forfeit approximately $1.3 million, representing proceeds from the conspiracy.
The investigation into this case started when detectives with the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office received complaints from local law enforcement that Care More was seeing a remarkably high volume of patients. Court records state that patient lines at Care More stretched into the parking lot.
