HHS is Using Data to Fight Opioid Abuse, Fraud and Just About Everything Else

NextGov: Dr. Charles Gott had been practicing medicine for more than 30 years at the time of his arrest.

Trained as a cardiologist, Gott began treating patients with chronic pain at his Bowling Green, Kentucky, clinic in the mid-2000s, and within a few years he was prescribing more methadone than any other doctor in central Kentucky. He wasn’t stingy with fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxymorphone or other opioids, either.

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