CHRISTIAN COUNTY, Mo. – Three employees of the Ozark Community Hospital – Christian County Clinic were sentenced to probation today for their roles in a prescription drug kickback scheme.

“This was a new thing for us that we did not expect to see in the state of Missouri. When people start looking at data and they find out that one of the leading top prescribers was from Missouri,” Michael Boeger with the State Department of Health and Human Services said. “Not only that, but from the small town of Nixa, Missouri, and that then we find out that there was a kickback involved.”

Susan Morris, Amber Moeschler, and Nga “Lily” Nguyen admitted they played a role in helping Dr. Randall Halley reap nearly $100,000 in bribe money for over-prescribing a powerful opioid pain killer called Subsys.

The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.

(Story by Parker Padgett, ozarksfirst.com)