Pill Mill Doctor Who Said Patients Were 'Dropping Like Flies' Pleads Guilty

An Alabama physician who was once the nation's highest Medicare prescriber of opioids pleaded guilty this week to health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unnecessary urine tests. Shelinder Aggarwal, 48, of Huntsville, also pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI agent Roger Stanton announced. As part of the plea agreement, Aggarwal must forfeit his former clinic and pay the government $6.7 million. (He has already repaid $2.8 million to Medicare and roughly $46,000 to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, and he forfeit...