Nibedita Mohanty, a 56-year old doctor from Stafford, pled guilty in court on Friday to several charges, including distribution of controlled substances and aiding and abetting health care fraud.
Mohanty, a former chief of medicine at Stafford Hospital, was arrested back in 2013 following a raid on her home.
The doctor received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, and completed her residency at the Brown University School of Medicine in Rhode Island.
She was indicted in front of a federal grand jury in July 2014.
The Stafford Sheriff’s Department investigated Mohanty and stated that she was involved in fraudulently prescribing medications that led to a patient’s overdose back in 2011. This patient was under her care in the hospital following the incident.
According to Mohanty’s testimony, she then proceeded to write another pain medication prescription for the same patient, who was found deceased the next day from another overdose.
This misconduct was not an isolated incident, and Mohanty admitted to several instances of inappropriately prescribing medications to patients that resulted in overdoses and medical fraud.
In June, Mohanty will be sentenced, and could receive up to 20 years in prison, according to a U.S. Department of Justice release.
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