Breaking News: Florida Psychiatrist who wrote 153 psych drug prescriptions per day is now under federal investigation

Medicare has stopped reimbursing a Miami psychiatrist who prescribed about 96,685 mental health drugs to Medicaid patients in 18 months. U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said the figures are alarming and has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate Dr. Fernando Mendez Villamil and other top prescribers.

Kelli Kennedy
Miami Herald
December 17, 2009

Medicare has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who prescribed about 96,685 mental health drugs to Medicaid patients in 18 months.

According to state records, Dr. Fernando Mendez Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions to adults and children every day between 2007 and 2009. That figure is nearly twice the number of the second highest prescriber on the list, who wrote 53,018 prescriptions over the same time period.

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