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You are here: Home / News / Community News / Seattle pain doctor indicted in opioid kickback scheme

Seattle pain doctor indicted in opioid kickback scheme

August 2, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Rajni Jutla

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle pain doctor is facing charges related to a major nationwide kickback scheme involving fentanyl prescriptions.

Dr. Rajni Jutla is accused in an indictment returned in U.S. District Court on July 24 of accepting more than $109,000 in kickbacks between 2012 and 2016 from Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics.

Prosecutors said she took sham speaking fees to more broadly prescribe an oral fentanyl spray approved for a specific type of cancer pain.

In an email on July 25 to The Associated Press, she said she is “confident all insinuations will be found untrue.”

Jutla is the founder of Mind Your Body Clinics, with offices in Seattle, Edmonds and Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Insys filed for bankruptcy after agreeing to pay $225 million to settle federal charges. Its founder, John Kapoor, was convicted of racketeering in May.

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Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 32 | AUGUST 3 - AUGUST 9

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