reposted from https://www.pharmaciststeve.com reported in youarewithinthenorms.com
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“…Newly released documents show that the US Federal Government has allowed insurance companies and unvetted AIs to target physicians who treat pain and addiction for prosecution. As crazy as this sounds, in 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions became convinced that the opioid crisis was not the fault of cartels smuggling fentanyl across porous American checkpoints. (1),(2)
And it wasn’t due to pharmaceutical companies corrupting drug approval officials and DEA administrators by hiring them as consultants after making decisions in the company’s favor. No.
The opioid crisis was caused by American physicians coddling pain patients and addicts. But reviewing all the actions of tens of thousands of physicians would take literally hundreds of years and thousands of agents, so the government paid for the development of a secret weapon.
It hired a private company to create a new Artificial Intelligence that would be trained to look for actions taken by physicians that the DEA deemed “illegitimate.” The theory was that artificial intelligence-enforced precrime predictive models would provide a focused criminal deterrence in the practice of medicine.
There is a strong incentive in this industry to err on the side of labeling activity as illegal; indeed, “bounties” can be paid to persons and companies identifying FWA. This company’s main selling point was the use of innovative data analysis, including data mining and predictive analytics, to identify patterns and improve operational efficiencies.
“Dynamic Dashboards” were created to focus on what the AI programmers perceived to be criminal behavior. AI decision-making is only as good as the data and parameters it is fed. Insurance companies told the AI that many treatments were “medically unnecessary” and, therefore, indicative of fraud.
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The DEA then provided its interpretation of actions it thought showed criminal medical practice, including the number of patients seen and prescriptions written per month, particularly the number of Schedule II prescriptions.
The distance a patient drove, whether or not the doctor’s office accepted cash payments, and the prescribing of a “trinity” of drugs, including a narcotic with a sedative, muscle relaxer, or even, amazingly, an antibiotic.
These were all seen as indicative of criminal behavior. Ignoring the fact that medical textbooks, continuing medical education (CME), and evidence-based practice say otherwise. The CDC says that treatment for pain can continue even if a patient has been diagnosed with addiction.
“Although identification of an opioid use disorder can alter the expected benefits and risks of opioid therapy for pain, patients with co-occurring pain and opioid use disorder require ongoing pain management that maximizes benefits relative to risks.” The AI also uses claims, encounters, pharmacy invoices, beneficiary enrollment files, state licensing board information, property records of targeted healthcare physicians, ownership/asset and financial filings of targeted healthcare physicians, and court records, as well as other custom data in its decision-making algorithm.
Chief Executive Officer Ronald G. Forsythe said, “We have combined the book smarts’ of AI and our analysts with the “street smarts” of our investigators to create one beast of a program integrity tool. Unleash the beast!” And unleash it they did, becoming, in effect, a private police force. Physicians began to see their colleague’s clinic doors kicked down and watched as these doctors were pilloried in the media for prescribing “Millions” of morphine milligram dose equivalents!” which would then be conflated with millions of pills.
No matter that this was a number accumulated over several years to sometimes thousands of patients and that palliative, cancer, sickle cell, and HIV/AIDs patients had not been excluded from the numbers.
Once in court, “experts” cherry-picked by the prosecutors for their extreme views made conviction easy. How can we expect randomly chosen lay people without the benefit of any medical education to sort this out? Doctors were convicted by the thousands, and tens of thousands of pain and addiction patients could not find a physician anywhere who was brave enough to treat them…”
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ENDNOTES
1.) Naomi Adaniya, MPH, PhD, is a Policy Analyst in the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division. She serves as the Director of the Health Care Fraud Data Analytics Team and leads the Department’s Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, a pilot program to utilize data to help combat the devastating opioid crisis that is ravaging families and communities across America.
In both capacities, Dr. Adaniya and her team are responsible for supporting health care fraud and opioid related investigations and prosecutions across the country. In recognition of her work, Dr. Adaniya received the 2017 Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Detection. Dr. Adaniya graduated from The Ohio State University with a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health and a second Masters in Geography. She received her Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School.
2) K. Tate Chambers graduated from the Southern Illinois University School of Law, after which he clerked for United States District Court Judge Richard Mills when Judge Mills was serving on the Illinois Appellate Court. Tate joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois in 1984 and has served in several capacities, including Associate United States Attorney, Appellate Chief, OCDETF Lead Task Force Attorney, Branch Chief, and in the Coordinator positions for PSN, Violent Crime, Gangs, and Community Outreach.
Tate also served as the National PSN Coordinator in EOUSA at Main Justice in Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2010 and on the Evaluation and Review Staff in D.C. as a Criminal Program Manager from 2010 to 2011. Currently he serves as an Assistant Director of the Office of Legal Education, EOUSA, at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina, where he is the Editor in Chief of the United States Attorneys’ Bulletin. Tate is retired from the Illinois Army National Guard where he served in the Judge Advocate General Corps..
